(100 results found)
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… in collaboration with Uri Amram. This book includes Hebrew poems created through the process of contrafactum: …
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
… settings of Hebrew prayers, psalms and other religious poems has not ceased to captivate the imagination of modern …
Echo-Poem for a Wedding in the Ghetto of Mantua
… "Ha-shirim asher li-shelomoh". The literary species of echo-poems was widespread in Italian Hebrew literature of this … we know of several references to musical settings of such poems. In Rossi's setting the role of the second choir is …
El lifne [sic] har Galil (shir hatunah)
… an unidentified piece in Persian. Bakkashot are piyyutim (poems) recited early in the morning prior to the opening of …
“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
Die alte Kasche stands out in the Yiddish folksong corpus for its simplest and yet…
Anu Be-hamon Shir
… R. Shmuel was a prolific poet, and several of his poems are of an exceptionally high level. We do not know …
Three piyutim: Adon olam, Yigdal Elohim, Eyn Keloheynu
… Three piyutim (liturgical poems): Adon olam . The lord of the universe; Yigdal …
Tzur mishelo akhlanu
… Table songs ( zemirot shabbat ), poems sung by family and guests after the festive Sabbath … repertoire. The present example, one of the most famous poems in this genre, is inspired by Birkat hamazon (The …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… dynasties in Eastern Europe, next to other Sephardi poems of kabbalistic content, such as "El mistater be-safrir … "Kol beru'e" was chanted as one of the baqqashot, the poems recited prior to the daily morning service. The tune …
Az yashir Moshe (Song of the Sea; Exodus 15) (2 versions)
… al altisimo ("Let us bless the Almighty"), one of the rare poems in Spanish that are still sung by the Western Sephardi …