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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to Niggun ‘Akedah. … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Such remarks provide little information concerning the music itself, yet they offer valuable insights for the …
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 …
The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech
… importance and not to be separated from the text. The musician, observing the Vedic cantillation especially that … it a special place among the various kinds of musical expression of the world, and it has been the object …
Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… As a consequence of this attitude, great compositions of music - such as those of Beethoven - were often imagined as … the mind of the artist and that idea was believed to be inexpressible in any real form. To this thinking, performance, … … Eastern Europe … Prayer … Jewish Prayer … Jewish … Jewish music … Religious music … Orality as Religious Ideal: The …
Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… Temple in Jerusalem) constitutes one of the most ancient musical repositories in the Sephardi liturgy. Of particular musical richness are the qinot of the Sephardi communities … of the tribulations of Israel in the exile and the expression of messianic hope for the restitution of the …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking histories. … of a given Jewish community and time in terms of its musical life. One type of situation, which I … with strong ties of family and sentiment produced an expressive system that spanned 'the old home' and 'the new …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …