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Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the Passover and Shavuot holidays, … Istanbul. Here we encounter our song as a piyyut , with a Hebrew text, titled “Adonay hu elohenu” (The Lord is our …
Yonatan Turgeman
… PhD candidate in the Hebrew University Musicology Department, a fellow of the PhD … musician ('Avodot Afar'). His dissertation, 'The Science of Song in 'Pre-Academic' Israeli Musicology and the Problem of … to issues of scientific approaches to the phenomenon of song as well as the interplay between creative musical …
Moshe Attias
… that as a token of gratitude, Ben Haroush left him his songbooks, which had also been handed down to him. The songbooks would prove to be the source from which Mwijo drew … very remarkable feature demonstrates his resistance to the Hebrew-centered ethos of the Zionist movement and the …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … of old. Browsing through my private collection of Jewish songsters in search for new songs for Passover for my online … both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to … indication “ Be-niggun ‘Akedah ” appears, however, before songs which are not ‘Akedah piyyutim , but should yet be …
Idelsohn: The Founder and Builder of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song
… she met her future husband, then a rabbinic student at the Hebrew Union College. They were married in 1912 upon their … towards traditional Jewish observances, the Hebrew language, and the idea Of Jewish peoplehood' in … of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song … A. Irma Cohon …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… other types in content and in language. The poems are folk songs, light, entertaining, and amusing in content. They are … so that the simpler people and the women, who did not know Hebrew very well, could understand them. Those who copied … did not assign a separate section to it, so that qasid songs are scattered throughout the manuscript. It seems that …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… Salamone Rossi? why the quotation marks around the word 'Hebrew'? Published in 1622/23, Rossi's collection of Hebrew 'Songs,' viz., 'The Songs of Solomon,' marks a milestone in the history of …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… in a very specific style. The category of synagogue song we shall illustrate and analyse may be called a … Cantors … 9433 … Cantorials … Hazzanim - Cantors … Hebrew cantillation … Synagogue music … Western Ashkenaz … …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in …