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Kedusha

… Nae, Jerusalem, February 2011. Musical Transcription … The singer Nehamia Hucha sings Kedusha. Recorded by Edith …

Almonds and Raisins

… film scene after the release of the first talkie, The Jazz Singer in 1927. Over the next 13 years more than 300 films …

Tipat Mazal (A Bit of Luck)

… Ze'ev Ravach. It is about Zuzu, a popular Jewish Moroccan singer and the hardships that he and his daughter Vivi …

Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)

… common musical style of the time. By the mid-1790s Jewish singers and musicians were even performing their traditional …

… song is quite beautiful, with the violin accompanying the singer in a low register (did he really intend viola in this … song opens with a major seventh interval between viola and singer, giving the listener an unsettling sense of lack of tonal center. The singer continues with a line that is built with the …

Ein Ke'eloheinu

… Zemirot Shabbath of Se'uda Shlishit (third meal). … The singer Morkekhai Ezra sings Ein Keeloheinu, recorded by …

The Tedeschian Community

… became Otolongi, Marburger or Marburg, became Morfogo, Singer became Sagra, Lausitz became Luzzati or Luzzato, and …

Responsorial Singing

… is a singing performance style in which a solo singer (leader) and a group of singers (congregation, choir) sing alternately, in response …

With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen

… basic characteristics of the music of the diwan songs. Each singer chose the stanzas that he wanted to sing, as well as …

Hayrana Laih

… Karaite Jewish origins composed it in 1932 for the Egyptian singer of Jewish extraction, Leila (or Layla) Mourad … near the Karaite quarter. He was initially recognized as a singer and ‘ud player, but his wide popularity stem from … than five hundred), which he wrote for Egypt’s most popular singers of the time, such as Umm Kalthoum and Amal El-Atrash …