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29. The Noble Bridegroom
… Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog … 29. The …
28. The Gold-Clad Bride
… songs traditionally sung the night before a wedding, at a women’s party, where the bride is adorned in her wedding … the version sung on the CD, recorded in 1981 by four women from Kadavumbhagam-Kochi. The final lines in stanza 7 … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog … 28. The …
27. The Elegantly Adorned Bride
… This descriptive tribute is sung to the bride at a special women’s party on the Shabbat preceding her wedding and also at a women’s party the night before the wedding. In elaborate … mostly in notebooks from Kadavumbhagam-Kochi, and the two women who recorded it in 2001 were from that community. … 52 …
26. After the Bath
… always shine! This short song was traditionally chanted by women who accompanied a bride as she was leaving the house … that this song might have been among those performed by women who used to accompany the bride from the mikveh early … community and one from Tekkumbhagam-Kochi. The two Paradesi women who sang it in 1977 in Kochi used the same repetitive …
25. Song of the Four Crowns
… This song in honor of a bridegroom is found in eight women’s notebooks, from Parur, Ernakulam, and … translated as “good old oil” refers to a traditional Kerala women’s process of preserving oil by combining it with herbs … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi … 25. …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… Who rules on high! May the One be blessed! Sung by women from Kochi, Parur, and Chendamangalam, this song for … wooden or metal sefer Torah cases. Kadavumbhagam-Kochi women told Shirley Isenberg that they remembered singing … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Barbara C. Johnson … 24. Blessing …
23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… , the same as for song 22, The Brit Milah Song. Some other women have suggested that it would be better to use a tune … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 23. Happiness to the Bridegroom …
22. Brit Milah (Circumcision) Song
… men just before a circumcision. Immediately afterward, the women sing this Malayalam version of the song. Our English … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 22. Brit Milah (Circumcision) Song …
21. Great God Who Has Fed Us
… Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 21. Great God Who Has Fed Us …
20. The Command Is Proclaimed
… mix of four different melodies, as did three other Paradesi women who recorded it in Kochi in 1977. After the initial … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Barbara C. Johnson … 20. The …