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Musical Traditions of the Ethiopian Jews
… intensively engaged in documenting and studying the diverse religious and secular musical repertoires of Ethiopian Jews. …
Hanukkah Blessings
… background (Sephardic or Ashkenazi) of its members or their religious leanings. Samuel David’s setting of the Hanukkah …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… educated in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called …
Prayer for the state
… downtown Jerusalem, a sanctuary where many state events of religious nature took place in the early years of the State …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… in Western Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song that developed in the 16th century in …
Akedah
… to God. References to this narrative can be found in the religious texts and secular literature of Jewish communities …
Zemirot
… domestic songs and home songs . These are a specific set of religious poems in Hebrew or Aramaic written mostly between …
Mitsve Tants
… attempts to renew the ritual in weddings of the national-religious society. There are two patterns to the Hassidic …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… The Baqqashot (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. … The adoption of the maqam principle as the basis of the religious music of the Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire, … The Aleppo community possessed a distinctive tradition of religious music derived from the heritage of Rabbi Israel …
Manifestations of Arnold Schoenberg's abstract versus concrete dichotomy
… context of his struggle with three works that share similar religious and philosophical exploration, all three utilize …