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Arba Otiyot
… of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb. Tāfīlālt) region, in particular to the lore of the venerated tzaddiq (Heb. … You can download MP3s at Amazon , or find it on Apple Music . Tracks List: Yom ha-shabbat tov lehodot A'ufah … … Piyyut … Piyyutim … Morocco … Moroccan … Contemporary Israeli Music … Israeli Choirs … Choirs … Choral music … …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… immigrated to Italy, and from there to France and to other parts of Christian Europe. Toward the end of his life he … from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … the piyyut has been set to new tunes by contemporary Israeli composers. The Ottoman/Iraqi Tradition A. Z. …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … kits, many of them produced in Israel. The subject of this article is the singing of the section known as the Four …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… researcher, and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in musicology at the Hebrew University, and his M.A. and M.Mus degrees and Artist’s Diploma from the Hebrew University and the … of “the gray area between the art, folk, and popular in the Israeli song.” His research interests span musicology and …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … by Mrs. Alice Lucas (in Abrahams 1920) Judge of the earth, who wilt arraign The nations at thy judgment seat, … Sammlung der gottesdienstlichen Gesänge und Recitative der Israeliten nach polnischen, deutschen (aschk'nasischen) und …
Assaf Shelleg
… Musicologist Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of … Jerusalem) studies modern and contemporary musics with a particular interest in art music written by and about Jews. … book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014), in addition …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … observes, “Melody is not an additional element, but part and parcel of the text, inseparable from it and … ending with F going down to C does not seem to be common in Israeli Ashkenazi communities; see Ne’eman 2012, 73. The …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… and arranged a song called (in his spelling) “Na-aleh L’artsenu – On to Our Land.” Binder indicates that this is a … one social circle or another and later entered the canon of Israeli songs but most of them, such as this song, … of Zion” (1942)). It appears in popular collections of Israeli songs produced in America, such as the “Metro Album …

Moritz Rosenhaupt
… major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does not appear … titled “Traditionaller Synagogengesang“ ( Gemeindeblatt der Israelitischen Gemeinde Frankfurt am Main , Heft 3 (November … These constitute a most unusual and certainly unique artifact of Jewish musical life in that community. The Klau …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… section of the Jacob Michael Collection of Jewish Music at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National … melodies, a tradition that was maintained in the modern Israeli repertoire of Purim songs, especially for children. … town of Dęblin in Poland). The second song of the suite (starting at 5:35) is no other than ‘Hag Purim, Hag Purim,’ a …