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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and with the departure of the additional “soul at rest,” traditionally granted to believers during the Sabbath. … is possible to distinguish between two branches of melodic traditions associated with this piyyut : the Ottoman/Iraqi traditions and the Maghrebi traditions from Algeria and …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music … of the Haggadah has been maintained and transmitted by oral tradition as well as in written sources since the mid-19 th … texts of the Haggadah that were performed beforehand using traditional unmetered study or prayer formulae. A canon of …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. Jewish youth first brought … hinting at the flexible rhythm characteristic of the traditional Ashkenazi prayer. In the descent to the tonic, … Sabbath, but we cannot ascertain whether Friedman had this traditional Ashkenazi modality in her mind when she composed …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… is an order of prayers for the entire year according to the tradition of Worms. Before the poem “Melitz yosher ya’amod, … users of this manuscript there was an awareness that a traditional melody for Shofet kol ha’aretz was already in … for example in the Selihot according to the order and tradition of the Holy Congregation of Fiorda (Furth) that …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in the areas that comprise today … six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will characterize each …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… explained. The individual phrases can all be located in traditional liturgical poems and the lyrics, like many of … background but would be meaningful to secular Jews as well. Traditionally, the “Yom Gilah” – the day of rejoicing, …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… the scholarly literature concerning the Western Ashkenazi tradition. Those closer to his time thought differently. For example Emanuel Kirschner, in a review/essay titled “Traditionaller Synagogengesang“ ( Gemeindeblatt der … as the most important figures of the German synagogue tradition of the late nineteenth century. Not much of his …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… of this piyyut with a variety of rhythmic melodies, a tradition that was maintained in the modern Israeli …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… ‘Haynt iz purim brider’ is found as an opening for many traditional Purim songs. The phrase is usually used to accompany the common appeal for money at the end of a traditional Purimshpil with lyrics such as ‘Haynt iz purim, … had to write a new text (based as we pointed out on traditional formulae) shows that the folk tradition in …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… The Hebrew University of Jerusalem … Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel … 25 … 9415 … 10623 … 2016 … Archival …