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Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… (‘Today is Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. Goldfarb’s Hamenagen [1] … in several widely disseminated American Hebrew-Yiddish songsters published by Harry Coopersmith and others. The …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… her unique, wide-ranging style, is in fact a suite of Purim songs. It opens with ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider,’ which eventually becomes a refrain used between the other songs of the suite. Amid these repetitions of ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider’ the suite includes two other famous Purim songs. The most prominent one in terms of its structure and …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in … of the twentieth century there are many such commonplace songs. Some of them became popular in one social circle or another and later entered the canon of Israeli songs but most of them, such as this song, disappeared into …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, Shavuot, and … find that the modes for Torah readings and for the Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes both use a major scale, but …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, and introspective songs meant for spiritual healing. [1] The Text The text …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … are Israel Goldfarb and Samuel E. Goldfarb, The Jewish Songster: Music for Voice and Piano (Brooklyn: Religious … music education board of Chicago, Harry Coopersmith, Songs of My People (Chicago: The Anshe Emet synagogue, …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose … version (which means primarily Baghdadi) appears among songs for the Sabbath, the Sephardic version is included in a chapter of pizmonim (religious songs with refrain) not associated with a particular time, …
Arba Otiyot
… and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov … Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … 5 … 2017 … …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original performance context or … on Purim, especially in Germany, is one of those songs. Attributed to Salomon Ibn Gabirol (1012-1058) due to … in the liner notes to the CD, The Sword of the Dove: Purim Songs in the Sephardi Tradition (2000) by the Boston-based …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… to the medieval romances noticieros (informative, narrative songs), due to its recounting of historical events. 7 … metric structure and modality. 20th Century Ladino Songs and the Memory of Saloniki In the aftermath of the … of the album, Ventanas altas de Saloniki , a set of Ladino songs from Saloniki recorded by contemporary musicians Orit …