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Ya meḥayei alnafos (He who gives my spirit life)
… and the ninth in Hebrew. The soloist opens with the first verse, and from the second onwards the ensemble sings a … Arussi concludes with a repetition of the opening verse, followed by the blessing Vekulkhem berukhim. 7. Zadok Zubeiri sings verses of his own choice from stanzas 8 and 9. He begins the …
1. El Atán, el Atado y el Ara (Et Sha'arei Ratzon)
… Hablad a mi madr e is one of the most emotionally-charged verses of this piyyut and for this reason it has been …
2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… in Smyrna in 1910. The poem consists of quatrains of rhymed verses. The elaborate traditional Sephardic melody of this …
3. The Little Sister (Aḥot Qetanah)
… “quasi-muwashshah,” that is, a phrase repeated with all the verses of each stanza, followed by a contrasting phrase in … congregation) that is sung to the melody of the rest of the verses. The form is therefore: aab(soloist) A(congregation), …
Léibele Schwartz
… Hashem, from Book of Lamentations (Eicho), chapter 3, verse 22 (Alter, I.); B'nei Veischo, from Festivals Mussaf …
"Sha'ali yefefiyah" (Ask, lovely one)
… in the Yemenite repertoire. The first, second and last verses of four are sung here. All the hemistiches are sung … Yosef Ozeiri opens with the first two metric feet of the verse, and Zecharia Yitzhak replies with the two concluding … Yitzhak starts, and Yosef Ozeiri responds. The two final verses are repeated. Although the character of each song is …
Hus elohai mime'onkha (Have mercy O Lord, from Thy dwelling)
… is interlaced thus creating a double signature: the first verse of each stanza spell Hisdai , and the second verse renders Yehudah . Put differently, the even verses by themselves constitute Yehuda Halevi's poem. This …
"Saperi tama temima" (Tell, pure and innocent)
… response begins with the closing hemistich of the second verse, and is sung as a response throughout the song: the …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… Arabic alternately. The structure of each stanza is: four verses of two hemistiches, three verses in the form of a Tawshih and two verses of two hemistiches rhyming with the leading verse. It …
"Esh'al elohai - Vehalleluya" (I will ask my God - Halleluja)
… male ensemble sing in a responsorial manner: from the first verse onwards the soloist sings the opening hemistich and … to sing the hallel . The soloist begins, and at the second verse all the members of the ensemble join in, some of them …