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Moshe Wilensky

… Wilensky composed most of her songs, including Yemenite-style pieces to lyrics by Alterman and Orland, such …

Paul Ben-Haim

… the arrangements that he made for her Sephardi and Yemenite tunes into his symphonies and other works. His …

… composers who wrote arrangements for the unique Jewish-Yemenite artist and singer, Bracha Zefira, and based many of their compositions on Yemenite and Sephardi tunes she sang, he was one of the …

Oedoen Partos

… his original, local style through the synthesis of Yemenite tunes he transcribed from Bracha Zefira. Music in …

Yehiel 'Adaki

… singing with Rabbi Shalom Giat, a famous singer among the Yemenite Jews from Manakhah, who, upon visits to Sana'a, was … house. In Palestine, 'Adaki discovered that Jewish Yemenite singing is looked down upon, even by Yemenite youth, and that it is only known in Yemenite …

Avner Bahat

… engaged with his wife Naomi in a study about the diwan of Yemenite Jews - piyyut-melody-dance. They conducted … website The project Jewish Music Mapped: The Music of the Yemenite Diwan in time and space. … 57 … 40772 … … … History of the Jewish dance … Jewish music research … yemenite singing … Diwan … France … Yemenite … Moroccan … …

Yehezkiel Braun

… work with modal music – mainly traditional Mizrahi tunes (Yemenite), but also some Ashkenazi ones and Israeli folklore … scale, for Jewish cantilation – Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, and Yemenite alike, and that basis is related to parts of …

Abraham Zvi Idelsohn

… Oriental Melodies, which was a comprehensive study of the Yemenite community in Palestine. Idelsohn was particularly … which became very bulky, and I had to separate from it the Yemenite Poetry, which was late published separately under …

Yehuda Ratzaby

… Aviv. He attended the Tachkemoni School (A Talmud Torah for Yemenites children) and the Balfour Gymnasium. In 1936, at … and the poetry of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, as well as poems by Yemenite poets such as Rabbi Shalom Shabazi. He also published many studies on the culture of the Yemenite Jews. He has written 25 books, and more than a …