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Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… Hazmana L'Piyut: www.piyut.org.il … The preparation of this song of the month was inspired by several recent inquiries …
Dos Fartribene Taybele (The Exiled Dove)
… 1990, pp. 158. … Goldfaden … New York … Yiddish … Yiddish songs … Yiddish Theater … Ashkenazi … Dos Fartribene Taybele …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… and North Africa of the “new” style of religious Hebrew song that developed in the 16th century in the Land of … the Western Jewish communities became familiar with the songs of Rabbi Israel Najara (ca. 1550-1625) and his followers. This popular song consists of quatrains of short verses with the rhyme …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Days. As the High Holy Days season arrives, we dedicate the song of the month to rare recordings of Ashkenazi melodies … season and the Shofet hymn. This kind of relation between a song and its liturgical context is frequent and is almost a …
Im nin'alu
… variant of the so’er (rajaz): -˘˘- -˘˘- - / -˘˘- -˘˘-. This song, as performed by Bracha Zefira, who sang a setting of … 240) Here we present four different performances of the song, including ten different melodies. This combination of … Each performer chooses which stanzas of the complete song suit him or his tradition, and the occasion on which it …
Tin Pan Alley
… Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in … By association it came to be applied to the general type of song purveyed by the industry both in America and then Europe up until the rise of the singer-songwriter in the mid-1960s. Suggesting the tinny sound of …
Zemirot
… The word Zemirot means literally 'songs' or 'hymns' but is used to refer to two specific … shel Shabbat (Sabbath hymns) translated variously as table songs, domestic songs and home songs . These are a specific set of religious …
Diwan
… prayer-book Tikhlal, and included a collection of poems, songs and blessings composed by the Sephardi poets of … Naomi Bahat-Ratzon and Avner Bahat , for the JMRC CD: With Songs They Respond . Go to the CD Webpage to listen to …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… the Baqqashot to this very day; his book, Zemirot Yisra’el (Songs of Israel) was published in three editions: Safed … of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of Judeo-Spanish songs) and of the peoples of the region: Arabic, Turkish, … and the lehanim to be applied for the performance of the song are provided in the headings of the piyyutim. The use …
Ma'oz Tzur
… likely based on an early Protestant chorale. See also the Song of the Month for Hanukkah, 2020: " Maoz Tzur: The …