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4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)
… line of all the stanzas is a quotation from a biblical verse that ends with the word Anojí (“I”, the first word of … kept alive a unique Eastern Mediterranean testimony of some verses of ‘The Tablets of the Law’ in Judeo-Spanish. She combines them with verses from another copla from the Moses cycle, The revered …
"Yedid elyion shema' mini devarim" (May the Lord on high hear my words)
… The beginning is slow, without percussion, but the second verse is repeated with the accompaniment of a tin pan, and … the song continues like this until the end. In the fifth verse the meter of the music changes from duple to triple, …
"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 …
"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 …
"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 …
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 …
"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 …
Léibele Schwartz
… Hashem, from Book of Lamentations (Eicho), chapter 3, verse 22 (Alter, I.); B'nei Veischo, from Festivals Mussaf …
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), …
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 …