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Moshe Cordova
… its activities in Istanbul. The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths … piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar … Leo Levi interviewed Cordova in Tel Aviv. Three songs are included in Levi’s precious recording. One of them …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … 41041 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim … African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the sixteenth century …
Maoz Tzur: The Mystifying Wandering of a Hanukkah Anthem
… This Song of the Month for Hanukkah, in video lecture format, … on December 13, 2020 as part of a American Friends of the Hebrew University program, examines (with audio …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… identity. In fact, they comprise a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in … of Jacobson’s article, one sees how the allure of Rossi’s Hebrew compositions to modern scholars impacts the … Biography of Salamone Rossi at the JMRC website Song of the month: Elohim hashivenu - A liturgical insertion …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … collection . Middleton WI: A-R editions, 2014. Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics makes public a forgotten source from … songs, it seems that the absence of a scholar familiar with Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs was detrimental to this …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… of spiritual reality in the late Sephardic piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the … and North African versions in the article entitled “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies … included in the Sound Archives is the subject of this Song of the Month. Performed by Mr. Nehemiah Hocha, it poses …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… There he founded the Archive for Oriental Music at the Hebrew University. Edith Gerson-Kiwi joined him, working as … recorded items (each one comprising several units, such as songs and dialogues), which, although already digitized and … Gadya Kedusha Four Melodies for Four Questions Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong) The recordings …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hacohen, NLI, Yc 197 … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical … structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and … some reservations. For example, what is “a common European song” is highly conjectural. However, a critique of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… mobile phone is the copy of a 78rpm record of a pizmon , a Hebrew para-liturgical hymn called “ Yom Yom Odeh ” (Every … and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … sign, the gazelle, and the name of the singer and the song written in Arabic, Hebrew and English. Courtesy of the …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… . Birnbaum introduces in it the score of Kol haneshamah , a Hebrew piece by composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti … arranged as a mini-cantata. We titled this cantata “Song for the Inauguration of the Portuguese Synagogue” … to include here the score of Dr. Schab’s setting of the “Song for the Inauguration of the Synagogue” as well as the …