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Moshe Cordova
… Moshe Cordova Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. Edirne, … 1881 – d. Tel Aviv, Israel, 22.12.1965) was a master of the Turkish ma ka m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an … piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of Israel in the East,” together with Binyamin Bekhar …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … 41041 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu” … popular modern Ladino songs, “Pesah a la mano,” authored by singer, accordionist, composer and teacher Flory Jagoda …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… 2 … 10 … 708 … The 78rpm recordings that are still emerging from archives … show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent from late … a studio ensemble comprising the most popular Sephardic singers of Salonica. It was still mentioned in an article in …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis collection . … field work alone contained 120 songs performed by Jewish singers (p. xxiv), but most of them were not included in the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in a car, driving on a mountain road that winds down along the Lebanese coastline, overlooking the Mediterranean … and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth century that … trademark sign, the gazelle, and the name of the singer and the song written in Arabic, Hebrew and English. …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the … that as a token of gratitude, Ben Haroush left him his songbooks, which had also been handed down to him. The … Although presented in the Hebrew press as a payytan (singer of religious poetry), Cheikh Mwijo rarely recorded …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… Studying songs for Passover offers us a rich field of inquiry into the processes that constitute Jewish music repertoires, most … is preserved at the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive. The singer is identified in the tape’s box as “Lerer” Zakhar. …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew … following God’s command that Abraham sacrifice his son. The plot is unexpectedly inverted by God's miraculous … in each source, as are the texts’ titles, indications for singers and text-underlays. (To avoid confusion, the term …
An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… ' … We hereby appeal to all Jewish musicians and singers in Jerusalem and in Erez Israel, to the Sephardim and also the Ashkenazim, Jews of Yemen and … to hear in the singing of the Jews today the echo of the song of Moses the Man of God, the psalms of David the King …
Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes
… tunes exist in many variants, which differ from each other musically, textually, and even in the language used. … is ever-changing, depending upon the place, time, and the singer; and even when it is notated, the musical signs and … di voce or other ligatures, not to mention the many personal habits in the voice production of the singer or …