… elohenu” appears in this collection under makam  Shehnaz . Singing in an Ottoman Turkish style, the Maftirim have maintained their oral tradition of choral singing until the present day. As a result, we have an … connected to the performance practices of the local Jewish-Portuguese community. To the contrary, Salomon’s …

… three choirs and orchestra depicting the redemption of the Jewish people. This oratorio has been considered since its … Many are based on tunes or motives derived from  Mizrahi  (Jewish Near-Eastern) traditions. Unlike most composers of …

… The texts recorded come from free translations of the Jewish liturgy into Judeo-Spanish (that is, not from …

… most important rituals of a traditional Eastern European Jewish wedding before the Second World War....The non-metric … wedding scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble of Jewish Folk Music of the Ukrainian S.S.R. recorded in the … di kale’ comes out an expression of the psychology of a Jewish woman...The musician knew the moods at that time, and …

… and the second with duple.   Hora as a Klezmer Genre The Jewish Klezmers adopted both kinds of genres and terms. The … folk dance. The Zionists, who had the custom of communal singing of both H assidic and Klezmer tunes, danced the Hora …

… wars and vicissitudes in Spain that greatly affected the Jewish communities there. In 1140 Ibn Ezra immigrated to … poetry, research on Hebrew grammar, writings concerning Jewish thought (including philosophy and various scientific … of modern and old Hebrew songs intended for Israeli singing communities. [15] Its inclusion in such a book …

… of a disaffected European aristocrat who rediscovers his Jewish heritage and immigrates to the Land of Israel to work …

… baby, a secular activity, was sometimes accompanied by non-Jewish melodies, sometimes by religious melodies, and … But these rhymes hardly imply the principles of the Jewish faith, and not even one of the 613 Mitzvas that the … the twentieth century, before the decline of Yiddish folk-singing due to the Holocaust, the mass emigrations, and the …

… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, … I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a …                                         ———. Forthcoming.  Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in …

… of Nusah Hatefillah as Dominant in Our Era." J ournal of Jewish Music and Liturgy 19: 19-30. Bar-Tal, Daniel, and … Study of the Penitential Poem Adon Haselihot, Sung in the Jewish-Babylonian Tradition in Four Communities." Context … Community . London: Routledge. Cohn Zentner, Naomi. 2009. "Singing the Bible with a Modern Inflection: Scriptural …