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34. Ati Mulatayi Porule (Creator Who Gave Discernment)
A devotional “play song", sung with clapping and dancing. It praises the Creator who…
Jeff Klepper
Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the singer-…
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… melody is still adapted to liturgical and paraliturgical texts in prose. For example it is sung for the second …
Karel Reiner
Karel Reiner, composer and pianist, born June 27, 1910 in Žatec (Western Bohemia).…
Portuguese Hatzi Qadish, Amsterdam, 18th century
Eighteenth-century notated sources of Jewish liturgical music are rare, and the…
Nikolai Kaufman
Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) Yankov Kaufman (or Kauffman,…
Samuel Adler
Samuel Adler was born in Mannheim, Germany (1928). His father was Hugo…
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… an attachment to the written word. Its performance contexts include functional or gender specific performances … incorporate an affinity to the 'high' culture of canonical texts in Hebrew along with an affinity to oral folk culture … the motifs that are traditionally used to learn canonical texts (Opening); a middle section, which is characterized by …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… one of the main home rituals. The Haggadah , the order of texts recounting the Exodus from Egypt, is read before and … (casuistry of Oral Law passages and other pedagogical texts) with liturgical ones (blessings, prayers and psalms). … musical repertoire for the performance of the Haggadah ’s texts grew exponentially through time (see for example our …