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Yemenite Qasīd Songs (Hebrew)
… Qasid differs from the other types in content and in language. The poems are folk songs, light, entertaining, and … 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 …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Rabbi … the relations and differences between the Moroccan Arab and Hebrew traditions of Andalusian music, and by his profound knowledge of the Hebrew language and the hermeneutics of sacred poetry. Above all, …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… 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 … since then in at least eight editions in several different languages. Goldfarb’s version was reproduced in the …
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 … octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject appeals … 1990s and signals the entrance of this globalized musical language into liberal American synagogues. By bringing this …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Yemen Shofet kol ha’aretz belongs to the medieval poetic Hebrew genre called pizmon that is characterized by a … the present-day availability of medieval manuscripts of Hebrew liturgical orders allow for a fundamental revision of … The melody itself is not based on a “universal musical language” (Avenary’s term) like pentatonics, but uses a …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… and great-grandchildren. Ben-Shammai studied at the Hebrew University in the departments of Arabic Language and Literature, history of the Islamic countries … Professor Emeritus of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University. He has served as co-director of the …
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 … which are given above or below each word in a printed Hebrew Bible, serve three functions: they indicate the … Prosodic Basis of the Tiberian Hebrew System of Accents.” Language 70, no. 1: 1–52. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and collections from the … and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly remembered by … of his own investigation into this melody (in its Yiddish language version), told me: “I was thinking that actually …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Coopersmith Hebrew version 1942: … ps://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/attachments/Hebrew%20version%20Coopersmith%201942.jpg Emil Saculet … [1] (1925). The song in both Yiddish and Hebrew (the latter language is important as we shall see below) was then …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Eliyahu Hacohen, the ultimate connoisseur of the Israeli Hebrew song, who wrote one of the most authoritative studies on Hatikvah ever, notes that a Hebrew translation by Mendel Stern of Die Wacht am Rhein was … poems, ‘Barḳai’ (1877-99). These show great command of the language. His most famous poem is, ‘Ha-Tiḳwah,’ in which the …