Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
Kazablan
Directed by Menahem Golan
Kazablan is an Israeli musical starring Yehoram Gaon and is an Israeli take on Romeo and Juliette.
More information can be found at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University website.
The popular song Kol HaKavod from the film
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1973
Gesaenge de Juden auf der Insel Djerba (Posthumous Works, II)
Author
The original German version of the epoch-making monograph by Robert Lachmann (published originally in 1942 in English without musical examples and photographs) on the musical culture of the venerable Jewish community from the Island of Djerba, off the southern coast of Tunisia. Reaching far beyond this specific case, which served Lachmann as a kind of pilot project, the book has become a model that scholars may find applicable to other issues in ethnomusicology.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1978
A Song of Dawn
An Early Twentieth-Century Sephardi Troubadour: The Historical Recordings of Haim Effendi of Turkey
Material Type:
Recordings
Year:
2008
Five Sephardic Choruses (SMR Bresler Collection)
Composer
Performer
Contents:
I. Yom Gila
II. Ya Ribbon Olam
III. Ein Keloheinu
IV. Adon Olam
V. Zamm'ri Li
Performers:
Mary Ellen Callahan, soprano
Helen Kruszewski, soprano (III. only)
Heather Johnson, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Kirchner, tenor
Gideon Dabi, baritone (III. only)
Ted Christopher, baritone
Pen Ying Fang, piano
Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir
Patrick Gardner, conductor
Material Type:
Recordings
Year:
2004
Coplas sefardies
Yona Homiya
Author
12 Sephardic songs. The book contains songs that were either written, composed, or sung by Yitzhak Eliyahu Navon. Includes words and music. Edited and published by Yitzhak Levi, for the preservation of Sephardi folk music.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1950
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.