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‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem
… day. [ 3 ] The normative order of Qabbalat Shabbat as practiced today, however, was not the only option available … in 1755. [ 12 ] Two centuries later, however, the performance of this poem all but disappeared from the … … [7] On these variants and on the diverse kabbalistic practices related to Qabbalat Shabbat and Mordecai Dato’s …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… employs a narrative strategy, analyzing “the conception, performance, and reception” of a single Habad nign, … in the corpus are transcribed from the instrumental performance characteristic of Israeli Hasidic music. This … vocalizations sung without words. Apparently, this practice fostered the shared musical scales in cantorial and …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… there. The Aleppo community held on to an ancient performance tradition of prayers and piyyutim that was also … of the “ Ades ” synagogue in 1901, they began to affect the performance style of Sephardic communities, beginning in … style of performance. The origins of the baqqashot singing practice are not certain. However, a liturgical poem in the …
Hay ram galeh
… H ay ram galeh is a rather recent example of the extensive practice of contrafactum that has characterized the … It only makes sense in the context of its musical performance, for it reverberates with the original Arabic … translation. Words in brackets are variants found in performance, including Havusha’s. These textual variants …

Inventing Jewish Music
… identity and an embodiment of Jewish community through performance, seemed as if it was falling into decay while … by the growing awareness that Jewish musical practices differed from community to community, from country …
A Selection of Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Beniso was also a trained singer. Among his extra-synagogue performances, he recorded commercial arrangements of few songs in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) following the practices of several of his predecessors and contemporaries, …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… that includes detailed commentaries on the contexts of performance of the songs, their language and literary … Signell, Karl L. | 'סיגנל, קארל ל 1977 Makam: Modal Practice in Turkish Art Music . Seattle: University of … Jahrbuch für Volksliederforschung 41: 54-73. 1997 “Performance in the Judeo-Spanish repertoire,” in: Amnon …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… after the reading. In the course of time it became a common practice to sing the last stanzas of this piyyut with a … beat, which then flows into a dance niggun . This type of performance recalls the patterns of singing ‘Shoshanat … ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim’ in Hebrew and Yiddish, a common practice in American Jewish communities at the time. All in …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… not only singing traditions but very specific liturgical practices from different Jewish communities in Morocco, in … not the most outstanding in terms of virtuosity, rather his performance style was characterized by his extreme …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… The Baqqashot (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It … indicating the maqam and the lehanim to be applied for the performance of the song are provided in the headings of the … to the crystallization of liturgical traditions and piyyut performances that conform to this musical system. The most …