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65. Each and Every Day
… upon Your gate, open it for me. In Your presence I beg, from my emptiness: oh, hear my plea. 2. Please accept my … Oh, send us, we pray, to the spacious land, far away from grief. 10. To our place of old, where the Temple stood, … I aspire, unto You I plead: send us by Your grace, Freed from the straits of our suffering, to that spacious place. …
64. Open Your Gate
… upon Your gate, open it for me. In Your presence I beg, from my emptiness: oh, hear my plea. 2. Please accept my … Oh, send us, we pray, to the spacious land, far away from grief. 10. To our place of old, where the Temple stood, … I aspire, unto You I plead: send us by Your grace, Freed from the straits of our suffering, to that spacious place. …
63. Singing, Singing
… in deed or shape. Within, You keep the greatest strength; from suffering You keep us safe. 7. You the One Who does not … praise. Amen, amen! This song incorporates elements from and elaborates upon one of the most universally known … eight-syllable lines. Its text is found in two notebooks from Parur, and it was also written in an Ernakulam notebook …
62. Eternal Living God
… in Parur, as it is found only in four notebooks, all from or associated with Parur. Rivka Yehoshuah from Parur recorded it in 1981, and almost thirty years … later, it was taught to the Nirit Singers by two sisters from a Parur family, Rivka Hai and the late Molly Pal. The …
61. Lord from the Beginning
… taṃbirān tānĕnnu Tāndala viḍānŏri nerāvuṃ illan 1. From the origin of time is the Lord Tambiran; There was … This Malayalam version of the hymn is found in notebooks from all three Kochi communities (three from the nineteenth century) and also in two notebooks from …
Jacob Hoffman’s “Doina and Hora” (1923) and the Analysis of Klezmer Music
… as well as music analysis: I discuss and play recordings from a 2017 workshop with the klezmer violinist Deborah Strauss and trombonist Dan Blacksberg. I also reflect on the use of …
60. Hanukkah Song
… [2] But it went on burning for eight whole days. 3. From twenty-fifth Kislev to Tebet the third, Is called … Kochi. Two of the six notebooks containing the text come from that community—as did the women who sang the recorded … 2016). Three other notebooks containing the song are from Parur or Chendamangalam, where the circle dances are …
59. The Document Box
… hung, (x2) Tanĕ tanĕ, hung upon the gallows there.(x2) 13. From Parshandada to Vayijata (x2) Tanĕ tanĕ, all eleven … by chamber pot are decidedly in the style of Purim dramas from other Jewish cultures, as well as that of many Kerala … variants of “The Document Box” are found in notebooks from Kochi, Ernakulam and Parur. Ruby Daniel identified this …
58. Ahashverosh Song
… mŏtalāya aṟiñña aṟivāḷan Āśuvěṟoś tanda nāḷila kāriyaṃ 1. From the start, all this was known by the Wise All-knowing … would give more to Omon, the Curséd one. So he asked from Mordecai, from the Learnéd Mordecai. 2. “If you sign a slavery bond, …
57. In the India Kingdom
… stated in the Bible (Esther 1:1) that Aḥashverosh reigned “from Hodu to Cush (Ethiopia).” Echoing Esther 1:3–7, it … tributary rulers. The attendance of these “lesser rulers” from the Bible can be compared to the relationship between … this first one is found in only three notebooks, all from Kochi-Paradesi. Ruby Daniel remembered it as the first …