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Or Haganuz
… recalls the way romantic composers interpreted literary texts (in this case liturgical texts and Yiddish poems) in their music, Hajdu offers a …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… with the question of how carriers of folk culture remember texts that are transmitted orally. According to Madar, one … creative mechanisms that allows for the remembrance of such texts is the use of fixed textual formulas of variable …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to ground the narrative of Hatikvah on canonic Hebrew texts. Imber, a Jew raised in a traditional family, … Moldavia among Jews and non-Jews and was adapted to several texts in Rumanian, one of which was Carol cu Boi . … new songs and adaptations of existing songs to new Hebrew texts in the incipient Jewish settlement in Ottoman …
Karev Yom
… of the early Hebrew repertoire. The rest of the texts are by canonical poets whose poems were set to music … Alterman, Yaacov Fichman and Yaacov Orland. Several of the texts are by the composers themselves, the most notable case …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… more varied than the style of the baqqashot piyyutim . The texts were written by various poets, beginning in the 19 th … Aleppo in 1830 and died in Cairo in 1919. He composed many texts for melodies that become an integral part of the …
Tora und Shira: Untersuchungen zur Musikauffassung des rabbinischen Judentums
… An exploration of rabbinucal conceptions of music through texts addressing the Biblical Song of the Sea (Exodus 15) … …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… to the text and the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a …
Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings
… in updated versions) perorating analyzing mostly medieval texts on music, many of them from the Judaic tradition. … …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… melody is still adapted to liturgical and paraliturgical texts in prose. For example it is sung for the second …
Sher
… is a well-known Russian-Jewish folk tune with a variety of texts in Russian and Yiddish, some of them quite risqu’e, …