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Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… apparently, in this original state of monophony while part singing and group playing were considered an art product and … … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of … single-handedly maintained and kept alive the Moroccan Jewish singing tradition in Israel against all odds. He was a …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community living in Saloniki at the time. The fire … tens of thousands of Jews homeless and consumed most of the Jewish neighborhood in the old city, including areas of … one, Saltiel does not repeat the B figure, instead singing an AB structure. Your browser does not support the …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their original … Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used to be performed in Jewish communities on Purim, especially in Germany, is one … is the gematria of mayim , water) officers I have left off singing, for the mouths of singers are filled with water, …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought (including philosophy and various scientific … of modern and old Hebrew songs intended for Israeli singing communities. [15] Its inclusion in such a book …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a performing stage, even though major … time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs added at the end of the seder is …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… span musicology and ethnomusicology and include communal singing ( shirah b’tzibbur ) in Israel today and its role in … and entrance examinations, and works as a researcher at the Jewish Music Research Center. Dr. Bar-Eitan is the head of …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an … shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional … in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Ashkenazi rite is obscured due to the abandonment of its singing in the liturgy. As the High Holy Days season … we can reconstruct with a certain degree of accuracy how Jewish liturgical practices evolved prior to the invention … also attested in several medieval manuscripts of the Roman Jewish rite available at the IMHM catalogue. The persistence …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a … ———. Forthcoming. Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in …