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Hayrana Laih
… in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana Laih … from Arabic to Hebrew, from the secular space to the religious one, and from the vast popularity of the song to a … “Layla Murad: Popular Culture and the Politics of Ethnoreligious Identity,” in The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: …
Musical Traditions of the Ethiopian Jews
… intensively engaged in documenting and studying the diverse religious and secular musical repertoires of Ethiopian Jews. The present page … Civilisations a Tradition Orale (LACITO) of the CNRS, Ethnomusicology Department, followed now by a new research team, …
Hanukkah Blessings
… of the candles occurred in community contexts, special musical settings were arranged. Our Song of the Month … Samuel David (1836-1895). Born in Paris, David received his musical education at the Conservatoire of Paris, where he … background (Sephardic or Ashkenazi) of its members or their religious leanings. Samuel David’s setting of the Hanukkah …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… singing other liturgical texts. The melody consists of two musical phrases repeated according to the aaba scheme. … U'ak. … From the upcoming release of JMRC's-Anthology of Musical Traditions in Israel: The Historical Recordings of … educated in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called …

Prayer for the state
… Synagogue … Liturgical Innovation in a Nation-State: The Music of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the State of … excellent article by Rabbi Prof. David Golinkin HERE The music of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the State of … downtown Jerusalem, a sanctuary where many state events of religious nature took place in the early years of the State …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Images: Musical Transcription Transcription done by Abraham Zvi … in Western Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song that developed in the 16th century in … Hebrew Song, published in 1922, and is dedicated to the musical traditions of the Persian, Bukharian and Daghestani …

Zemirot
… domestic songs and home songs . These are a specific set of religious poems in Hebrew or Aramaic written mostly between … which are sung during and directly after Sabbath meals. The musical versions are numerous and heterogeneous reflecting a … God and his Sabbath and of God's remembrance of his people. Musically, the repertory of Zemirot Sabbath is diverse and …
Mitsve Tants
… attempts to renew the ritual in weddings of the national-religious society. There are two patterns to the Hassidic … the JMRC Cd- The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim. Musical Transcription … Performers: Vizhnitz Choir, … the JMRC Cd- The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim . Musical Transcription … Performer: Avraham Bord, Mendel …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… The Baqqashot (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … The adoption of the maqam principle as the basis of the religious music of the Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire, …

Manifestations of Arnold Schoenberg's abstract versus concrete dichotomy
… Underlying Arnold Schoenberg's music, prose, philosophy, and life-story is a premise that … context of his struggle with three works that share similar religious and philosophical exploration, all three utilize …