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65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
This is a Judeo-Spanish contrafact of an extremely popular dance melody of the early…
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… of the piyyut . His insights on a selection of different texts suggested a comprehensive method for addressing the … from an evolutionary diachronic perspective. Among the texts he selected was the seli h a “She’eh ne’esar,” a … then reflects an old Ashkenazi practice codified in printed texts. His melody cannot of course accommodate the rest of …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… with the Western Sephardic tradition, it contains unique texts such as the selection of Psalm verses whose music is …
Israel Adler
… written sources (i.e. manuscript and printed scores, texts about music, textual descriptions of musical events, … by many as a model of philological publication of texts, Adler unraveled unknown sources about Western music … about music by comparatively examining the wanderings of texts, concepts, and ideas from one source to another. One …
The Hallelôt in the Yemenite Dīwān (Hebrew)
… A preliminary listing is given, of printed and manuscript texts in a quantity which seems tolerably representative, …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… understand. Listening to high art music with Hebrew sacred texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the …
Aharon Amram
Aharon Amram was born in Sana'a, Yemen, in 1939. His father, Rabbi Shlomo Amram, worked…
8. El Debate de las Flores
This is a copla of paraliturgical or entertainment social functions in which various…
2. Pāloṭu paḻam Taruven (Parrot Song)
A popular “play song” usually accompanied by clapping and a circle dance, this is also…