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La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … of these same repertoires. The Ladino or Judeo-Spanish song repertoire is an exemplary example of this phenomenon. …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies … included in the Sound Archives is the subject of this Song of the Month. Performed by Mr. Nehemiah Hocha, it poses …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and … Gadya Kedusha Four Melodies for Four Questions Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong) The recordings …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and … some reservations. For example, what is “a common European song” is highly conjectural. However, a critique of … is found in the last of a series of five folios with songs for the Seventeenth of Tammuz, all framed by the seli …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … sign, the gazelle, and the name of the singer and the song written in Arabic, Hebrew and English. Courtesy of the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the Passover and Shavuot holidays, which is derived from a group of songs often referred to as the ‘cycle of Moses’ due to their …
Yonatan Turgeman
… musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of Song in 'Pre-Academic' Israeli Musicology and the Problem of … to issues of scientific approaches to the phenomenon of song as well as the interplay between creative musical … 'The Bridge is Dead: A Theory & Short History of Everyday Songs in Hebrew', was published in 2017 (Hakibbutz …
Moshe Attias
… that as a token of gratitude, Ben Haroush left him his songbooks, which had also been handed down to him. The songbooks would prove to be the source from which Mwijo drew … Yossef Chetrit from University of Haifa he recorded many songs from these manuscripts that Chetrit transcribed for …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … of old. Browsing through my private collection of Jewish songsters in search for new songs for Passover for my online …