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“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 … piyyut has been set to new tunes by contemporary Israeli composers. The Ottoman/Iraqi Tradition A. Z. Idelsohn …
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 … and supplication. [3] Settings of Shema’ Koleinu by other composers The combination of the moving words and the …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish Homeland, Arranged for Mixed Voices.” [2] This … pronunciations. None of the songs have attributions for composers or lyricists, though two of the melodies are …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) places his birth place in … Professor J. Hess from Heidelberg; and (according to the Jewish Encyclopedia ) the “choir leader Benz,” who taught … settings by Rosenhaupt mixed with a few pieces by other composers for daily, Sabbath and High Holiday liturgy for …
Or Haganuz
… by Hajdu. Using a technique that recalls the way romantic composers interpreted literary texts (in this case … Ashkenazi hazzanut and to all those who have an interest in Jewish music. You can download MP3s at Amazon , or find it … … 1 CD + booklet … Jerusalem, Israel … Jerusalem, Israel … Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… culture emerged in Palestine and spread throughout the Jewish world with remarkable speed.It also shows how its practice at ceremonies of Jewish institutions, synagogues, schools and youth … song was a standard practice of Russian romans and opera composers. In short, one can surmise that there were certain …
Karev Yom
… of the earliest commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after … sound and the packaging of Bikel’s album catered to this Jewish market and its imagination of the new Israel. The … songs (thirteen out of eighteen) are by five canonic Israel composers that dominated the “golden age” of the modern …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire … singing tradition found among the descendants of the Jewish communities exiled from Spain to the lands of Islam … Two central, modern figures in this tradition, that is, composers of piyyutim and teachers of the tradition to the …
Sol Zim
… all ages. He is considered to be one of the most important Jewish cantors. Zim studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, … New York University and received his doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He lives in Queens, NY. See … / Sol Zim: … American cantor, composer … Hassidic music … Composers … American cantors … Hasidic Music … Composer … …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … days a half century earlier: [1] “Why are there so many Jewish students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory? Because … Conservatory and the benign encouragement of leading composers such as Aleksandr K. Glazunov and Nikolai A. …