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Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends in Judaism … But Haim was not a full-time cantor who recorded some songs in Ladino. He moved into what we may today call the …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… approach, the Jewish Music Research Centre dedicates the Song of the Month to the Selihot. The materials are … “rite of forgiveness”. Observing forty days of selihot starting of the first day of the month of Elul until Yom … was reprinted in Israeli editions. This is therefore a particular poetical and musical tradition of medieval …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… Hazmana L'Piyut: www.piyut.org.il … The preparation of this song of the month was inspired by several recent inquiries … a musical staff), which made transcription of the melody particularly challenging. Part of the fragment (line 6 of the recto to line 10 of the …
Dos Fartribene Taybele (The Exiled Dove)
… 6 … 744 … Germany … This entry is part of an online exhibit entitled: 'Abraham Goldfaden: A … link below. Click Here for Slide Show This version of Dos Fartribene Taybele performed by Estella Schreiner was … 1990, pp. 158. … Goldfaden … New York … Yiddish … Yiddish songs … Yiddish Theater … Ashkenazi … Dos Fartribene Taybele …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Rabbi Yosef Shalom Gallego who was born in Saloniki (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the last third of the 16th … and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song that developed in the 16th century in the Land of … the Western Jewish communities became familiar with the songs of Rabbi Israel Najara (ca. 1550-1625) and his …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Days. As the High Holy Days season arrives, we dedicate the song of the month to rare recordings of Ashkenazi melodies … sung during the High Holidays. In a thought-provoking article on Shofet kol ha’aretz in Ashkenaz, Hanoch Avenary … season and the Shofet hymn. This kind of relation between a song and its liturgical context is frequent and is almost a …
Im nin'alu
… variant of the so’er (rajaz): -˘˘- -˘˘- - / -˘˘- -˘˘-. This song, as performed by Bracha Zefira, who sang a setting of … Israeli public since the thirties. Joseph Tal and Oedoen Partos also arranged it for choir. (Bahat, 1995: 240) Here we … 6.1.77; YC 1175) sings the first stanza and the second part of the third stanza to three melodies: the first in …
Tin Pan Alley
… Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in … By association it came to be applied to the general type of song purveyed by the industry both in America and then … the World Wars to Broadway, around 50th Street, and particularly became associated with the Brill Building, with …
Zemirot
… The word Zemirot means literally 'songs' or 'hymns' but is used to refer to two specific … adapted to Zemirot texts. Hassidic dance melodies were particularly popular. 4. In the past 30 years, the … dissemination of newly-composed settings for Zemirot as part of the Neo- Hassidic musical genre which gained …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… from 2-3 a.m. until the Shaharit prayer, in which the participants communally sing various piyyutim, which are titled Baqqashot. The practice developed, for the most part, in two geographical areas: the area of Allepo in Syria, … the Baqqashot to this very day; his book, Zemirot Yisra’el (Songs of Israel) was published in three editions: Safed …