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In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into … Gila Flam from the National Library of Israel; Dr. Alex Hartov from the Dartmouth College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 2000, 218–222; Guez-Avigal 2009, 159–166; Kartun-Blum 2013). Likewise, the Binding of Isaac has constituted a common motif in works of art among Jews throughout the ages (Sabar 2009, 9–27). In … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… continuity of national schools of thought in sciences or arts. Its more recent political history has demonstrated the … that many aspects of their expression in speaking as in song preserve some remnants of an early pre-Christian style; …
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… with two tasks: (1) to examine the concept of 'national folksong' and its applicability in the instance of the musical … whose ideas may be 'in the air' of a period forming part of the Zeitgeist and its forces, the melodies, rhythms … not 'in the air;' if anything, they are perhaps 'in the earth,' but that is another matter. They constitute part of …
An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… music that are dispersed through all the corners of the earth! Who amongst you senses the sanctity of his people's … to hear in the singing of the Jews today the echo of the song of Moses the Man of God, the psalms of David the King …
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… number of variants of a folk melody was undertaken by Bela Bartok at the beginning of the century, and continued by his … from sixty divergent versions of the same song. … 9433 … Sephardi … Sephardic Jewish people … …
Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes
… identifying and relating the variants of a model-tune is particularly important, when we compare two or more melodies … … Variant … Melodies … Melodic variants … Folk music … Folk songs … Folk tunes … Folklore … Oral tradition … Numerical …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… other types in content and in language. The poems are folk songs, light, entertaining, and amusing in content. They are … content and music. The qasid were sung at the end of parties, once the serious part of the affair was over and the Rabbis and honoured …
Towards a Typology of the Judeo-Spanish Folksong: Gerineldo and the Romance Model
… which seeks to define the Judeo-Spanish folksong as represented in its geographical distribution, by … which reflect the multidimensional character of the folksong. A definition will be obtained, therefore, when the … Alexander-Frizer … Isaac Benabu … Yaacov Ghelman … Ora Schwartwald …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… Published in 1622/23, Rossi's collection of Hebrew 'Songs,' viz., 'The Songs of Solomon,' marks a milestone in … only collection of religious works by a Jewish composer of art music. They were written for various combinations of … a rabbinical responsum to a query about the legitimacy of art music in the synagogue, followed by five statements of …