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The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music

… to Piyut and Zemereshet have addressed this song, providing new information, but still leaving much to be said. That the … (Makolit). Also Ran Eliran included the song in his 1962 New Sounds of Israel (where his name appears as “Ron”). The … sources are manuscript copies of prints, such as Ms. New York, Jewish Theological Seminary 1513, a copy of the Venice …

Four Melodies for Four Questions

… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah … piece of research on the subject is Ruth Sragow Newhouse’s dissertation, The Music of the Passover Seder … School, Congregational Seder, and Home Services (New York: Bloch Pub. Co, 1925). In Europe during the early 20 th …

Tanya Sermer

… at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Tanya conducts ethnographic research in which she …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis

… and affects. In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation … 12 by reflecting on the goal of this work—which is to offer new ways of hearing and understanding cantillation—in the … 1953. Baal t'fillah; oder Der practische Vorbeter. New York: Sacred Music Press. …

Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story

… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest … published printing of this melody appears in A.W. Binder’s “New Palestinean Folk Songs,” it is important to explore … music director of the Stephen S. Wise Free Synagogue in New York City. Rabbi Wise, an outspoken pioneer of American …