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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern … context for religious performance, inspiring and expressing a state of religious spirituality” (2000, 14). The …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) studies modern and contemporary musics with a particular interest in art music written by … and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014), in addition to Theological Stains: Art Music …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … practices evolved prior to the invention of the printing press. Among the novelties that emerged in the past decade … Shofet kol ha’aretz.” This is the earliest mention of the music of our poem, and obviously it indicates that in the …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … way of interpreting Shema’ Koleinu. Her melody not only expresses the fear of the worshipper calling out to the …
Max Lempel
… Service (later on Kol Israel Radio) where he arranged music and accompanied many singers. He also taught for many … at the Jerusalem Conservatory, later the Rubin Academy of Music . Sources: Hirshberg, Jehoash. Music in the Jewish … Palestine 1880-1948: A Social History . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, pp. 95-96. Lühe, Barbara von der. Die Musik …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … 2:11). Although he was away for a long time, this stanza expresses Elijah’s condition during the era when the people of … asks for a revelation from God or from the Messiah. Music: Origins and Performances The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… and its documentation are therefore formidable. However, musical renditions of the piyyut are rather rare and will be … that Kikhlot yeini has survived in two apparently unrelated musical strands which we have labeled “Zionist” and “Jewish” … the poet scolds Moshe. In the last verse, the poet expresses the malicious hope that the host should be sworn to …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … in Morocco, in the face of their vanishing under the pressure of Israeli-Sephardic standardization. In spite of … the Moroccan Arab and Hebrew traditions of Andalusian music, and by his profound knowledge of the Hebrew language …
Bernardo Feuer
… and secondary school in his hometown and was drawn to music from an early age. Feuer learned the basics of music from his father, and later joined several liturgical … popular repertoire. In addition, Feuer composed works expressly for the choir. During this period Feuer also taught …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… including a strong tendency towards linguistic as well as musical dialect formation. It is only natural that the musical traditions of Kurdistan Jews should also have been … of history. It is certain that many aspects of their expression in speaking as in song preserve some remnants of an …