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Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… ancient musical repositories in the Sephardi liturgy. Of particular musical richness are the qinot of the Sephardi … melodies … Ancient … Qinot … Ninth of Av - Tish'ah BeAv … Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… history,' arises from music created for a particular moment that suddenly passes due to the turbulence … … 23259 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Jewish music … Yiddish songs … Film music … Film … Unintentional History: Musical …
La musique juive dans l’Espagne médiévale
… 1492, doit être considerée comme une benediction pour 1'art musical péninsulaire. L'histoire et l'épigraphie nous … à mesure que le temps passait, de nombreux éléments de l'art indigène espagnol. Il est d'ailleurs intéressant de … à savoir dans les pays balkaniques et en Espagne. … Songs … 23131 … Jewish music … Medieval … Spain … Medieval …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… The aspect of cantorial music here considered forms part of the solo performed by the precentor or Cantor in the … century onwards. Even before that period cantorial art is known to have acquired a certain individualism and … in a very specific style. The category of synagogue song we shall illustrate and analyse may be called a …
Bernardo Feuer
… was born on May 1 st , 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now in Ukraine. He … Kalmele Weitz, Oscar Haller, Aaron Gutman, and Leibele Schwartz. The Hazormir choir repertoire was not exclusively … synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk songs, choral parts of operas in the original language or …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… Fire of Saloniki), also known as La cantiga del fuego (The Song of the Fire) and, after its opening line, Día de … fire. Today, the upscale Electra Palace hotel sits in the heart of the city where another Jewish school, the Alliance … of the lyrics within a summary of the fire: “The fire started in a quarter named Agua Muev a and expanded through …
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 … Sephardic milieu. The lyrics cover an apparently earthly topic, but do so with concealed and semi-overt … the four stanzas which contain the acrostic and does not start with the refrain. In an important study of this song, …
Arba Otiyot
… of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular to the lore of the venerated tzaddiq (Heb. … and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov … Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … Choral, Choral …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… immigrated to Italy, and from there to France and to other parts of Christian Europe. Toward the end of his life he … Context “Eli Eliyahu” is sung on Saturday night as part of the havdalah (separation) ceremony. Havdalah is a … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… texts grew exponentially through time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs … kits, many of them produced in Israel. The subject of this article is the singing of the section known as the Four … minhag (custom) singles out the Four Questions as a particularly musical moment in the seder . Until the mid-20 …