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23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… Daniel and other members of her family, who sang it to the melody for the Hebrew piyyut ’El ‘Elyon , the same as for …
21. Great God Who Has Fed Us
… repeats the final stanza, changing to a different melody. This is a common practice among Kerala Jews, who may repeat the final stanza of this Hebrew song by using a melody associated with a particular festive occasion—e.g. a wedding melody to celebrate the news of an engagement or a brit …
20. The Command Is Proclaimed
… women who recorded it in Kochi in 1977. After the initial melody, shared with songs 19 and 21, the second tune is from … Areshet 1980, 210). The third was the as yet unidentified melody used by Daniel’s grandfather, Eliyahu Japheth, when …
18. Our Food
… The 2002 recording transcribed here was sung to a Kerala melody for the popular Hebrew Shabbat piyyut “ Yom Zeh … the celebration of a brit milah. The source of their first melody (shared with songs 19 and 20) has not yet been …
17. Blessing Song
… and Ruby Hallegua in Kochi, they used the same chanting melody that they had used for song 26, “After the Bath. ” …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… different Kerala Jewish communities, each with a different melody and arrangement. 16a. Miriam Daniel, Rahel Nehemiah, … by Sarah Cohen (without repetitions or a refrain) to the melody of a Hebrew piyyut: “ Torat ’Adonai Temimah ”(’ …
15. Sefer Torah Dedication Song
… cases (Isenberg letter, Nov. 23, 1981). They sang it to the melody appropriately shared with a popular Simḥat Torah … in Kochi, who began the first stanza with the same melody, and then switched for the second stanza to the tune … Areshet 1980, 155). [3] Venus Lane recalls that this second melody was also used for teaching the Hebrew alphabet to …
14. The Paliat Achan Song
… In 1997, Ruby and her sister Rahel told me that its melody was the same as that of a non-Jewish Malayalam folk …
12. North Side, South Side (A Visit from the Raja)
… combined because the two short songs share the same simple melody. They were initially recorded together in 2001 by …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… Kochi song from memory, without hesitation, to the same melody she also used for singing the Mala Synagogue Song. …