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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in America – A. W. … of Orientalism. Curiously, the musical notation for the singer in the first measure (and for the following measures …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… Moritz/Moses Rosenhaput was born (see Fränkel 1921) in the town of Jesberg near Kassel on March 14, 1841. However … succeeded the great cantor and theoretician Josef Singer, who had been called to Vienna, to cantor at the … from 1895. Schluss-Kadish le-yamim noraʼim für Cantor, Unisono-Chor und Gemeinde, op. 45, No. 2 / componirt ... von M. …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… “The songs of Leibu await definitive professional … wrote back in 1984 the internationally renowned Yiddish singer Nechama Lifshitz in a memorial note dedicated to her … It includes a selection of a representative corpus of songs performed by Leibu Levin with or without instrumental …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… … Israel … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is … ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and women was …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in diverse variants, … and reproducers of these stories than they do about the song’s actual historical past. Untangling these stories … the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg [and later on an opera singer in that city]. He composed melodies for two songs …
Karev Yom
… I am still living the life of those times… Theodore Bikel On October 2, … commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … own collaboration with Dov Seltzer and the latter’s wife, singer Geula Gil). We shall therefore dedicate the rest of …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… This song of the month is a humorous Yiddish song about a robbery. It is also known as “Bay Mein Rebbe iz … and shouting to passersby to help him. Actor and folk singer Theodore Bikel during a live performance humorously …
Zemerl (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles … “...a zemerl [pl. zmires ]...is a religious folk song in Hebrew or Aramaic sung on the Sabbath. Bearing a … variety of tunes, as a zemerl (religious folk song).” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( Recording referenes …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as … use of maqam . The use of maqam for liturgical poetry and song was based throughout the 17 th century on extensive … a section of piyyutim and that which follows, a solo singer performs a musical section called peti h a (opening) …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… 1911.pdf Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. Cahan's 1957 … on Dicunt , their 2013 collaborative album with Russian singer Psoy Korolenko. Here , they adapt the song to the …