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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 … both in the Yiddish-speaking world as well as in the modern Hebrew song repertoire in the Land of Israel. I am grateful … College Archive of Jewish Sound; Dr. Michael Lukin from the Hebrew University; Maestro Raymond Goldstein; and Prof. …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon … descendants. The story’s primary textual rendering in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis XXII:1–19) is somewhat brief, barely … of the Binding of Isaac and was also used for additional songs in Hebrew and Yiddish, the content of which relates to …
Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… other types in content and in language. The poems are folk songs, light, entertaining, and amusing in content. They are … so that the simpler people and the women, who did not know Hebrew very well, could understand them. Those who copied … the qasid 'abda' birabbi di kalaq is published here, with Hebrew translation and apparatus. The musical treatment of …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… Salamone Rossi? why the quotation marks around the word 'Hebrew'? Published in 1622/23, Rossi's collection of Hebrew 'Songs,' viz., 'The Songs of Solomon,' marks a milestone in …
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 … performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in … Moreover, the catalogue of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the National Library of Israel lists …
Arba Otiyot
… and the members of the rabbinical dynasty he founded. The songs have been codified in a compendium titled Yagel Yaacov … developed by the Piyut Ensemble of the Ben-Zvi Institute, a Hebrew University institution dedicated to the research of … Institute/NaNa Disk … Contemporary Jewish Music … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … Choral, …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… onle of the last great poets of the Spanish 'Golden Age' of Hebrew poetry. Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, Spain in 1089 … Ibn Ezra wrote Biblical commentary, poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought … during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu), whose …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is a late medieval … Ashkenazi communities, a paraphrase in Yiddish followed the Hebrew text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in … W. Binder, Seder Melodies: The Hagaddah Set to Music: in Hebrew and English for the Religious School, Congregational …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… ever since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by … on Purim; and (6) one for the festive megillot —Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes—read on Passover, Shavuot, and … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the …