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Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… written for various combinations of three to eight voices and intended for use 'on all sacred occasions.' We …
The Bergamasca: Some Jewish Links?
… re-echoed by Eric Werner over 80 years later in A Voice Still Heard (Werner 1976: 96-98, 266). The following …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… the modern world. Musical sounds — whether created by human voice or instruments — occupy the integral function of a …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… of such a sophisticated argument: Man is born with his voice alone and is therefore, by nature, a monophonic … this conventional thought. Man is gifted not only with his voice, but also with some strong bodily motor impulses like …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… and cantor born in Saloniki in 1931. Saltiel offers us the voice of a singer at the center of the community where this …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… the Sephardi Tradition (2000) by the Boston-based ensemble Voice of the Turtle. The reason for its inclusion in that CD … by Isaac Levy as a Sephardic religious song and recorded by Voice of the Turtle in 2000. In the 1950s and 1960s Israeli …
Courtney Blue
… Classical music from a young age. She continued to study voice at Wheaton College, receiving her BA in Music and …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… drink poisoned water.” (Jeremiah 9:14); “they raise / their voices and weep” (v.9) -- “Then Jacob kissed Rachel and … to those who call out To You, O to You they raise / their voices and weep Angel of Deliverance / come before this …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… and Samuel E. Goldfarb, The Jewish Songster: Music for Voice and Piano (Brooklyn: Religious Schools of Congregation … Abileah, Ephraims’ wife, in an arrangement for piano and voice (Haifa: Universum le-musiqa Abileah, 1956, copy in …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… כָּל פֶּה. בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה'. שׁומֵעַ תפילה. Listen to our voice, Lord our God. Spare us and have compassion on us, and … [2] This prayer opens with a reference to God who hears the voice of the worshipper, who has mercy on the worshipper, … koleinu, Adonai Eloheinu, h us ve-rakhem ‘aleinu Hear our voice, Adonai our God, have compassion upon us Part …