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Desde hoy, la mi madre (24)
… a good sign (v. 12, 14) (note: e n buen siman, from the Hebrew: besiman tov). Score and lyrics: … Judeo-Spanish … Judeo-Espanol - Judezmo ,Judeo-Spanish … Ethnography … Ethnomusicological Research … Fieldwork … Ladino Songs … לדינו … …
Y espera, señor (17)
… wishes to look well (v. 7) for the guests (v. 8; note the hebrew word kahal ). Whoever has a good body should dance … Judeo-Espanol - Judezmo ,Judeo-Spanish … Ethnography … Ethnomusicological Research … Ladino Songs … Wedding … לדינו … …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… text for easy online search and mobile viewing. Idelsohn's Hebrew and English biographies, written in the early 1930s, … appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared in Die Chasanim Welt 3, no. 15, (Sh’vat, …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … Jewish history, including among other things the revival of Hebrew in Ottoman Palestine, the creation of a new secular … himself left a rather short autobiography in English and Hebrew published towards the end of his life, when his …
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
… The qinnot (dirges) for the Ninth of Av, the Hebrew date marking the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, are one of the oldest musical layers in the Western Sephardi liturgical …
'Et sha'are ratzon
… and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew poems based on Midrashic themes that are related to …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… This is a rhythmicized example of the Hebrew psalmody used for the Sabbath eve (compare with no. 9 … urban centers of Morocco, a further proof of the liturgical music links between these Jewish centers in the past and of … Amsterdam by the choir. The last verse receives a special musical treatment, a sort of cadential pattern that leads to …
Halleluya halleli nafshi (Psalm 146)
… This chant is an example of Hebrew psalmody that consists of a flexible melodic formula … This is one of the oldest genres of Sephardi liturgical music. It is used for singing psalms on diverse occasions, …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… of Prof. Juda Leon Palache. Prof. Palache was a lecturer of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of … Cardozo, it was Zwi Werblowski, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University, who transmitted this tune to Leon Palache … in the Italian tradition of Padua (see: Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection , AMTI 0201, …
Moshe Havusha
… traditions are based on both Syrian (“Halabi”) and Egyptian musical styles. Today, Havusha, who still lives in the Beit Israel neighborhood, is a popular hazzan , payytan , musician, and singer, with a large following across … also a documentary film about the life of Moshe Havusha (in Hebrew). … Paytan and Musician … Paytanim, Payytanim … …