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Hay ram galeh
… into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but rather a performer thoroughly involved in the … as Halevi. Almog Bahar, one of Israeli’s outspoken modern poets of Sephardic pedigree, discusses the phenomenon of … performer, theatre stage versus synagogue, and so on. The poet Ahmad Rami wrote an Arabic love song in which the lover …
Contrafactum
… words. This technique was used in 12 th century Spain, as poets and Paytanim would write above the first line of their …
Seliha-Selihot
… many were written and their style developed. [1] Among the poets who wrote Seliha' s are Sa'adyah Gaon, Gershom b. … 1038-1089), a halakhic authority, Biblical commentator and poet, this Iberian order of selihot remained in continuous …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… and piano, with lyrics from a poem by the Israeli national poet, Haim Nachman Bialik. The poem, rich in Biblical reference, expresses the poet’s desolation and loss of faith – “They say there is …
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
… from the diwan of Shalom Shabazi (the most important Jewish poet of Yemen from the 17 th century), drumming on …
Elohim Eshala
… (Jewish and Muslim) performance practice of this type of poetry. Also worth noticing is that Damari sings with a … Shabazi the greatest seventeenth-century Yemenite Jewish poet. Performances of Elohim Eshala In 1936, upon the …
Brakha Tzefira
… A special event on the tour was the visit of Egyptian poet Dr. Ahmad Zaki at one of her shows in New York. He … either by working with composers on the melodies, or with poets on the lyrics. Her songs based on Arab or Bedouin …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… The liturgy seems to be the oldest layer of Karaite sacred poetry; it only contains a few variations on a repertoire of … a kind of opening for secular music to seep into the sacred poetry, both in Eastern Europe and in Egypt. Whereas the … for generations, and remain to this day. Today, the sacred poetry of the Karaites is in the process of change and …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… nineteenth century, popular poems, written by well known poets were spread with the title of 'folksongs'. The … Lyrical Songs In these songs, the melody dictates the poetic structure, which includes the strophe length, lines division, poetic rhythm, and emphasizing the important parts while …
Shabbat Hamalcah
… Lechu Neranena, Shalom Aleichem, Kiddush, and 16th century poet Rabbi Yisrael Halevi Najara's Ya Ribun Alam Ve'Almaya …