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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… asks God to reveal Himself before him and to show Abraham grace, similar to the primary theme of the poem, in which the …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… tradition of Calcutta (Kolkata), whose Jewish community traces its origins to Baghdadi Jewry. Sephardic melodies of …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… O Thou, whose mercy faileth not, To us Thy heavenly grace accord; Deal kindly with Thy people's lot, And grant … classifies these variants into two main branches and traces their development against the background of the … Seroussi 2002) from the transalpine tradition and had embraced the music aesthetics of the surrounding culture. The …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… original practice by deductive methods (Weil 1995), and trace historical continuities and discontinuities (Avenary …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… When in the New York Tribune of September 26, 1915, I traced back its age as demonstrably earlier that 1750, … Hypothesis Also Ashkenazi melodies competed in the race for the origins of the tune of Hatikvah . The famous … [34] List’s arguments showed that it is impossible to trace clear-cut genealogies of such a widely diffused melodic …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… the words ‘ Noam Sephardi ’ … not only has the ‘ noam ’ [grace] vanished from our prayers, but the ‘ noam ’ has also …
Skotshne/Skochne
… 1973: 41). One finds the skoczek among Polish dances (Stracewski 1901: 717), and in the Czech repertoire there is a …
Sher
… sherele -- scissors) tends to a more calm rhythm and to graceful expression. The klezmorim knew well how to discern … not available and the music is not available we could not trace the development of the Jewish sher until it reached the … known as the ‘sherele’) tends to a more quiet rhythm and a graceful expressiveness. The klezmorim knew well how to …
Mazltov (LKT)
… calls aloud the name of each woman present, who then embraces the bride and completes a circle with her. The wedding …
Longa (LKT)
… picked up on these. There are klezmer tunes that can be traced to these, mixed with hasapikos, a Greek urban dance.” …