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Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… and leaving aside all technicalities, we encounter the fateful question if this kind of music making is at all … by nature, a monophonic 'organon'. For this very reason, many primitive civilizations, and even more developed … may join the singing in some sort of sound combination. The singer may also accompany himself on some kind of stringed …
Bernardo Feuer
… Feuer was born on May 1 st , 1910 in Lemberg [Lviv], a city then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but now in Ukraine. He was the son of Mordechai [Markos] Feuer and of Rojme [Roshme] Pese, … that Feuer fill in, with the approval of the other singers and especially of Feuer’s father. Feuer continued …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of … death, as this Shabbat marks the end of the bakkashot season according to the Moroccan tradition, of which Rabbi … tradition to a new generation of Israel-born Moroccan piyut singers. On many occasions, he carried out this enormous …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… The Sephardic copla, El incendio de Saloniki (The Fire of Saloniki), also known as La cantiga del fuego (The Song of the Fire) and, after its opening line, Día de … Yannatou approaches this album not as a strictly Ladino singer but rather as an institutionally trained Greek vocal …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… 1962 Kikhlot Yeini - Berry Sacharov - 2012 … Track 14 from the 1998 JMRC recording Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all … water) officers I have left off singing, for the mouths of singers are filled with water, filled with water. Bread …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Clement Robert, Courtney Blue, Yaniv Dery, Noam Peleg, Sonja Wiedemann English translation: Courtney Blue The piyyut “Eli Eliyahu” is attributed to Rabbi Abraham Ibn … Liturgia Judeo-Española as sung by Moshe Levy, a Cairo-born singer. [10] , Similar to many Jews from Cairo in the …
Max Lempel
… in 1900 into an assimilated Jewish family. He studied at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and … to British Palestine with his wife and three-year-old son. There he founded one of the first, if ad hoc , symphony … Israel Radio) where he arranged music and accompanied many singers. He also taught for many years at the Jerusalem …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish … texts grew exponentially through time (see for example our Song of the Month archive). The singing of serial folksongs … in the exceptionally popular A. M. Silbermann and Erwin Singer, Die Haggadah Des Kindes (Berlin: Menorah, 1933), …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… Debbie Friedman, the Composer Deborah Lynn Friedman (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important role in …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 4 Baer 1 Baer 2 Baer 3 Shofet De Sola … דוד צובירי … The piyyut Shofet kol ha’aretz (‘Judge of all the Universe’) … of its singing in the liturgy. As the High Holy Days season arrives, we dedicate again the Song of the Month to this … the upper register. The players improvise by following the singer in his rhythmically flexible cantorial melodic …