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Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… Recording of "Mi'al har horev" from Obadiah the Proselyte's Hebrew musical manuscripts, arranged by Andre Hajdu and performed … a general picture regarding this interesting set of early Hebrew musical manuscripts. In 1918, a fragment containing …
Prayer for the state
… Synagogue … Liturgical Innovation in a Nation-State: The Music of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the State of … Rabbis Itzhak Herzog and Ben Zion Uziel, and amended by the Hebrew writer and Nobel Prize laureate Sh.Y. Agnon. … includes poetic devices that are rare in the traditional Hebrew prayers of antiquity, such as a large number of …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Images: Musical Transcription Transcription done by Abraham Zvi … Europe and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song that developed in the 16th century in the Land … out that in its form, content and general spirit, this Hebrew song strongly recalls songs for Purim in …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… The term Niggun Devekut, which probably is a Hebrew translation of the Yiddish expression 'A dveykes … 'A Dveyke', and is found in contemporary sources and among Hebrew speaking Hassidim, literally refers to meditational … whether with or without text, are considered the core of musical creativity in all hassidic communities. They are …
Badhan
… Hebrew lit. entertainer. A merrymaker, rhymester, and musician who entertains primarily at weddings. Professional …
Zemirot
… home songs . These are a specific set of religious poems in Hebrew or Aramaic written mostly between the 10th and 17th … which are sung during and directly after Sabbath meals. The musical versions are numerous and heterogeneous reflecting a … God and his Sabbath and of God's remembrance of his people. Musically, the repertory of Zemirot Sabbath is diverse and …
Fal
… that from the first generations of the Hasidic movement, musically skilled Hasidim were aware to the fact that a … [ subjects ]. ' This awareness of Hasidic Menagnim (the musicians, see: Menagen) to the niggun 's division into … God's name - Yahweh, that, when written in its original Hebrew form, has four letters, and the letter 'He' appears …
Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… A tune used mostly for dancing. The Hebrew term is likely a translation of the earlier Yiddish … in various communities). Hassidic dance tunes have defined musical characteristics such as duple meter and fast tempi … [1] See Vinaver-Schleifer, Anthology of Hassidic music , p. 240; see also Moshe Beregovski, Jewish …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… poems written by the poets of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of Hebrew poetry in Spain (10th to 13th centuries), and these … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … by the individual. The Baqqashah is unique to the religious Hebrew poetry of medieval Spain, it is usually scanned in …
Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
… 1 CD, accompanied by Hebrew and English program notes and texts. Selections of liturgical music of various Jewish communities in Italy, recorded … … Liturgy … Shabbat … Recordings … Circumcision … Wedding … Hebrew cantillation … Hanukkah … Festivals … Hymns … Purim … …