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Hava Nagila
Click Here for Slide Show This entry is part of an online exhibit entitled: 'Hava…
Tants (Alter yidisher) (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… . Birnbaum introduces in it the score of Kol haneshamah , a Hebrew piece by composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti … he knew via the copies in Birnbaum’s collection at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Fast forward to the … establishing the Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964, Adler developed a …
Hayrana Laih
… Leila (or Layla) Mourad (1918-1995). Daoud Hosni (whose Hebrew name was David Khadr Hayyim Halevy or David Hayyim … ‘ud player, but his wide popularity stem from the popular songs he composed (more than five hundred), which he wrote … Joseph Algazi maintains that the composer set music to Hebrew songs but he does not provide evidence, except for …
Jeff Klepper
… “everything’s ok” but also “this voice is good enough” in Hebrew) and they still perform together to this day. One of …
The Liturgical Music of the Provencal Jews (old Comtat Venaissin)
On the occasion of the renewed interest on the opera “Esther de Carpentras” by French…
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… of Mizrahi elements in their own music. He composed songs with both Hebrew and Arabic texts as well as large instrumental and … Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Zemereshet (Hebrew) In this 45-minute sound interview Aharon shares …
Gas-nign (LKT)
… A.] Segal’s expression -- ‘gas-nign’ (street song). These songs accompanied the traditional procession to the house of …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… religious devotion and piety, and of a great knowledge of Hebrew literature…. His ...performance was overwhelming, and … biography of Salomon, published in ten installments in the Hebrew newspaper Ha-maggid in 1875. Its appearance … _____. 2010. “Music That Escaped: Transcriptions of Two Songs of Praise From a Surviving, but Still Hidden, …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” … family from Bombay who sang this melody to the religious Hebrew text, “Ki eshmerah Shabbat,” a song intended for the … (1998) in collaboration with Uri Amram. This book includes Hebrew poems created through the process of contrafactum: …