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A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made famous … origin Siham (or Seham) Refki (1922-2007). The song is attributed to the Syrian composer Abdel Ghani … (1900-1970). However, it belongs to a genre of popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles from the Greater …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … This mode is common in prayer tunes, in the Yiddish folk song and in the old instrumental repertoire. [1] The two …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… interpreted) symbolic value. Chapter 5 discusses song texts, highlighting the centrality of “wax and gold”—a … layers that characterize Amhara poeticism—for understanding song texts. The idiom draws on the goldsmith’s method of … 4). Chapter 6 provides detailed musical analysis of several songs: a solo voice and masinqo performance, a solo voice …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of … s containing the musical and textual transcriptions of the songs would become available in Jerusalem. That promise …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… life, she treasured within her memory the Judeo-Spanish songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a … During her youth, she was surrounded by the women’s songs of the Jewish community of Tetuan. Romances (ballads) …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… chapter about the African-American appropriation of Jewish songs and themes, as though Smith had not been a Jew. If not … of jazz composition as it emerged from some of the Jewish songwriters of Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville, most notably …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… Jewish Music … Ashkenazi people … 6 … 2020 … Folk songs … Joachim Stutschewsky … Cello - Violoncello … Klezmer …
Moshe Cordova
… piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar … Leo Levi interviewed Cordova in Tel Aviv. Three songs are included in Levi’s precious recording. One of them …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … 41041 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim … Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth century … the opening line of one of the most popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… rehash of the legends by Michael Freedland (1974) the songwriter’s major biographies had to wait for his death. … given Berlin’s permanent place in the pantheon of American song, if not song in general. It's now 30 years since … Berlin’s death, and 70 years since his last significant songs were written. I (like Kaplan and Bergreen) am 70 years …