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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 … and Shavuot holidays, which is derived from a group of songs often referred to as the ‘cycle of Moses’ due to their … Ten Commandments, and the arrival of the Israelites to the land of Canaan. Geographically, our song is found throughout …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most … song “Piramidn.” The song, whose first line is “In dem land fun piramidn,” appears in Samuel Bugatch’s Songs of Our …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to … with the Indication Be-niggun ‘Akedah (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Reuchlin 7, 63r ) The second song …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… As Israel Adler has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, … of the Yiddish-language film of the 1930s in Poland and the United States provides an example of this sort … … 23259 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Jewish music … Yiddish songs … Film music … Film … Unintentional History: Musical …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… The Sephardic copla, El incendio de Saloniki (The Fire of … to the medieval romances noticieros (informative, narrative songs), due to its recounting of historical events. 7 … un pan amargo, ni con agua no se va. Las palombas van volando haciendo estrución. Ya quedimos arrastrando sin tener …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 1962 Kikhlot Yeini - Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Track 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Peleg, Sonja Wiedemann English translation: Courtney Blue The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is attributed to Rabbi Abraham Ibn … Europe. Toward the end of his life he wandered to England, and most likely passed away there. Throughout his … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish … our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … Seder from Notated Sources (1644-1945) (University of Maryland, 1980.) We have benefitted from her work in the writing …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical … today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations … on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, Shavuot, 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 America – A. W. … called (in his spelling) “Na-aleh L’artsenu – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a Yemenite melody and …