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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… published in many diverse locations and periods. Among the early printings that should be emphasized is “ Seder … from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ Literary … It was recorded by Jewish artists from the East in very early recordings. Cantor Yitzhak Algazi recorded the Ottoman …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely considers the Jewish home as a … (New York: Bloch Pub. Co, 1925). In Europe during the early 20 th century, we should mention the presence of this … Ashkenazi tunes Not all Ashkenazi homes, at least by the early 20 th century, followed the traditional “gemara …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be accompanied by simple … this harmonic progression appears in popular music of the early 1990s as a signifier of hope and optimism. Moreover, …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early eighteenth century, in the Yemenite rite during the … of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … Tyrnau, an Austrian rabbi active in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in Vienna and its vicinities who …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … in Esther trope; the two pitch centers are not as clearly established and the switch is not as stark. Example 9 … into the new key. The etnaḥta phrase in Example 9 moves clearly into D minor. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… sections. The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist songbooks and … cantillation, he was also one of the most important early collectors and arrangers of Zionist music in America. … important to record the melodies associated with the early stages of the rebuilding of our homeland, so that we, …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… borrowed for this play, as was the standard practice in the early Yiddish theater. ‘Flaker, Feirel, Flaker’ crossed the … at the beginning of this article. Goldfarb’s version is clearly taken from the zamelbukh , except that it is … arrived in Palestine and was translated into Hebrew as early as 1900. Later on, in the early 1920s, Kadish Yehuda …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an early Zionist pioneer did not compose it spontaneously. Nor … is that Hatikvah (“The Hope”) is a perfect example of the early Zionist movement’s creative drive and haphazard, … legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem …
Karev Yom
… The interview was held at the initiative of the Israeli music connoisseur and collector Dudi Patimer. Speaking live from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Bikel was nearly offended when Gazit asked him if the interview should … the end of the interview, when asked if he remembers his early days in Tel Aviv, Bikel responded simply with the …
The Early Attempts at Creating a Theory of Ashkenazi Liturgical Music
… … 2 … Jüdische Musik als Dialog der Kulturen (Jewish Music as a Dialogue of Cultures) … Jüdische Musik als Dialog der Kulturen (Jewish Music as a Dialogue of Cultures) … 33934 … 59–69 … … liturgy … Ashkenazi … Boaz Tarsi … Jascha Nemtsov … The Early Attempts at Creating a Theory of Ashkenazi Liturgical …