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El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in Saloniki consisted of these … strophic in form, with a varying but definite textual structure. According to Weich-Shahak, the majority of coplas …
The “Proclamation Style” in Hebrew Music
… Music … Hebrew Melody … Proclamation … Melody … Melodic structure … Jewish musical tradition … Jewish music … The “Proclamation Style” …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… as Niggun ‘Akedah An inseparable part of the stanzaic structure of the ‘Akedah piyyutim is their designated … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Institute of Religion Another early example of such a musical instruction is found in the book of customs, …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … on Mount Sinai. The textual form consists of eight stanzas structured in estrofas zejelescas , a strophic form with a … we find that all variants share a common structure of four musical phrases of relatively equal length, with similar …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … can be reduced to a common source, Birnbaum proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. … of Jerusalem in 1964, Adler developed a research infrastructure which allowed him to process, transcribe, edit and …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is associated with the emergence of … [3] Moreover, synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, often tended to structure new compositions of (para)liturgical hymns (known …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new … texts suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the musical aspects of Hebrew liturgical poetry from an … This is “a pattern of rhythmic bars and a symmetric structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… such as seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions of the …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… the other three verses, even though its opening and overall structure and content patently belongs to the same class. … return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical performance of the three verses. The precious Leo Levi recorded collection of Italian Jewish musical traditions includes four versions of Elohim …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… Traditional patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …