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Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important role in dramatically … the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional career began in the 1960s, developing out of … more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be accompanied by simple …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… is put (theoretical, historical, the acquisition of compositional craft, aid in preparing a performance), its …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… of early-twentieth century Zionist music. The very composition of the song includes signifiers that could … in the twentieth century. This is not a book of original compositions – most of the songs in it are listed as “folk … message does not solve any of the questions regarding the composition of the melody itself, its dating, or the …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… (1841-1900). The other two volumes contain entries, both compositions and arrangements of the compositions of others, by Cantor Fraenkel. These constitute … the Rare Book Room'. Besides these published and manuscript compositions, Theodore Fränkel (1921) reports on a large …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… is hard to asses to what extent this is an original musical composition by Goldfaden or just an adaptation of a Yiddish …
Or Haganuz
… Ashkenazi hazzanut pieces by applying to them contemporary compositional techniques. The present production was …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… is credited not to Samuel Cohen’s adaptation but as a composition by Leon Igly. Consistently we find it stated … figure or musical germ [sic!] may be found also in other compositions of various lands and ages. In fact, the … utilized popular tunes of Bohemia as themes to his larger compositions. The most striking thing is that there is more …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… prayers. Early evidence for this phenomenon is found in the compositions of Rabbi Israel Najara (1555-1625), where we … cycle). Apparently, most of the baqqashot arrangements are compositions that were adopted in the recent past and … by various poets, beginning in the 19 th century, and composition of piyyutim and pizmonim continued throughout …
Sher
… two dances, and each one of them created many distinct compositions... In Yiddish literature the ‘kozatz’keh’ is …
Sol Zim
… Maine. Sol Zim is celebrated for his highly distinctive compositions and has written hundreds of popular & …