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Responsorial Singing
… “Call and response,” “responsive,” or “responsorial” is a singing performance style in which a solo singer (leader) …
Aharon Amram
… Aharon Amram was born in Sana'a, Yemen, in 1939. His father, … also took care of orphans, who were transferred to Sana'a, out of the fear that they would be converted to …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… The Yiddish language, which probably began to develop around the tenth … Ashkenazi folk tradition is Sammlung Jüdischer Lieder und Gesangstücke by H.E. Golomb (Vilna 1887), which contains six … a libe sung by Julio Kaufman and recorded by his daughter Susana Weich-Shahak in 1975. Picture no.4, sound example no.2 …
Andalusian Nuba
… In this article we will review the development of the Nuba, which is … type of frame drum) that is followed by a series of songs (Sana'a) that are performed without pause until the end of … at the beginning to a fast tempo at the end. The different Sana'ai within each Mizan appear in a fixed order: First …
Romancero
… Collection or corpus of romances (romanzas), which are narrative poems with a well defined textual …
Romanza - Romance
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. A narrative poem, a ballad, originated in Medieval …
Coplas - Complas
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition.. Strophic poems, with various but very definite …
Cantiga - cantica - cantar - canción
… A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. Lyric songs, structured mostly as stanzas of four …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used … and accompanying commentaries are the work of Dr. Susana Weich-Shahak, one of the veteran associate researchers … Congress, Toledo, 1998 , Vol. II, Judaism from the Renaissance to Modern Times, Eds. J. Tarragona Borrás & A. Sáenz …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Example 2 Notation to "ekh ti zimliak" taken from Sefer HaN igunim . Brooklyn: Ḥevrat Ni h … scholar and international expert on the Ladino song, Dr. Susana Weich-Shahak. The lyrical changes found in these …