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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … Jewish family from Bombay who sang this melody to the religious Hebrew text, “Ki eshmerah Shabbat,” a song … of “Fog al-Nakhal”/ “Balini-b balwa” into its private religious repertoire (Manasseh 2012: 132-133). 'Balini …
Salamone Rossi’s HaShirim Asher LiShlomo in its Fourth Centennial (5383-5783)
… Even if you are mildly interested in Jewish music, you cannot avoid Salamone Rossi and his … of polyphonic settings of Hebrew prayers, psalms and other religious poems has not ceased to captivate the imagination of modern musicians, scholars and their audiences. As time passed, …
Moshe "Musa" Berlin
… berlin is a clarinet player and one of the leading Klezmer musicians in Israel. He was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv to a family of Hasidut Modzits . Musa’s musical capabilities were discovered at the age of 6 when he … played in varied Jewish events such as weddings but also in religious events in the Jewish denominations and …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all those interested in this … interactions characteristic of modern North African Jewish music. The other side of our record contains another … published in 1856) the main late-19th century compendium of religious Hebrew poetry from Western Algeria. As with many …
Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the recent passing of … the same time, he became active in the Bnei Akiva (national religious) youth movement not only as a leader but also as a … the fabric of the new society. His ties to the national religious movement and his musical and musicological …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… with biblical cantillation, prayers and piyyutim (songs of religious content) for Sabbaths, Holydays and life cycle … the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … opportunity to validate historical theories of musical change that have been based solely on the …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical … poet as a prophet-seer and incorporated it into their non-religious Zionist agenda through the figure of ‘ha-tzofe … plays, plural of ‘hizzayon’] of Israel’s history, with musical accompaniment (i.e., ‘hizzayon negini’), ‘that will …
4. La constitución se dió (Jacob Algava)
… the military that became obligatory also for ethnic and religious minorities. The refrain in Turkish says, “Long … Turks. The record label defines this song as “Turkish.” Its musical style however is overtly that of a Western military … - Ladino … Ladino Songs … Ottoman Empire … Sephardi music … Salonica … Saloniki … Thessaloniki … Eastern …
26. La rosa de mayo + Los bilbilicos (CES)
… fourth stanza. The melody was adapted at an early stage to religious Hebrew texts, especially to the Sabbath table …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… the holiday of Passover (see Shiloah 1983). Its traditional religious imagery could be read through the lenses of the … tune adapted from Idelsohn’s Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Music (1923b: 140, no. 193) is an unexpected turn after four … seems to address the subject of belief through various religious and philosophical themed folksongs. [1] Nahôn …