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Mä'ni Khäytoghi
… This song is a humoristic wedding song from northen Caucasus in the form of bäyt (stanzas of four verses … rhyme AABB). The song is performed as a duet between two singers. … 8 … 7 … 41475 … Derbent … The Music of the …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The Jewish liturgy was never a sealed and unified corpus. … as “permission” or “consent” the Hebrew word also resonates with privilege, i.e. the honor conferred upon the … Nathan and Youssef Cohen, two famous Tunisian Jewish singers, recorded the only known version of the Psalm verses …
Flory Jagoda
… Singer, musician, and composer Flory Jagoda has widely promulgated and enriched the Sephardic musical tradition in the United States. Born … extended family and a grandmother who sang Sephardic songs and recited traditional prayers. Flory escaped from …
"Betzet ḥatan be'et qiddush" (When the groom goes out at the time of qiddush)
… Wedding zaffa in the form of a girdle poem with two stanzas and two … to the second, and the last three verses to the third. The singer performs many free melismata between the verses and at the end of the song. … 7 … 41801 … NSA studio, Jerusalem … With Songs They …
"Ahuv mehar hamor natan li morasha" (My beloved from the mountain of Myrrh has given me an inheritance)
… Wedding ḥaduyya , praising the tradition, sanctity and joy of the wedding, signed … as is usual in folk poems. The melody of this song is one of the most popular wedding melodies, and is … the end of the song. This song has been performed by many singers, and has been the basis of a popular Israeli folk …
"Yedid elyion shema' mini devarim" (May the Lord on high hear my words)
… by Yehosef, signed Yehosef Haqatan . An exhortation to read the Bible, the Mishnah , and the works of Maimonides, and to … Yitzhak begin the sequence nashid-shira-hallel with this song to a response: Zecharia Yitzhak begins, and Yosef … the following hemistich. The first foot (-) is sung by one singer, and the second responds with the next two feet (**-- …
"Esh'al elohai - Vehalleluya" (I will ask my God - Halleluja)
… Poem by Yosef ben Israel, signed Ani Yosef . The poem speaks of the vision of redemption, the return to … the recording was made, a pair of dancers accompanied the singers, and the mutual influence of dancers and singers is … grant you a good life). … 7 … 41783 … Kiryat Ono … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen …
Sarah Gorby
… , Bessarabia (now Chișinău, Moldova), was a renowned Jewish singer known for performing Yiddish, Russian, and French folk songs. Her birth name was Sofia Gorbovskaya, and she grew up … and classical singing. Her family's relocation to Paris in the 1920s allowed her to study under prominent music …
"Ayumah be-har hamor" (The Beloved on the mountain of myrrh)
… , containing six stanzas in Hebrew and Arabic alternately. The structure of each stanza is: four verses of two … music over a period of generations. The hallmark of personal and communal traditions, which are determined by the singer's place of birth and education, is clearly …
Pinchas Borenstein
… Pinchas Borenstein was born in the small town of Jeziorna Królewska, a suburb of Warsaw, … family; his father, Yaakov Dov, was a rabbi, and his four sons became cantors. From a young age, Borenstein … , some of which can be accessed online. … Cantor and singer … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, …