Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
The Musical Tradition of Hasidim
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Yiddish Folk Songs from Galicia
Collector
Editor
Table of Contents:
Nos 1-25: Ballads and narrative songs
26-47: Love songs
48-57: Dance songs
58-68: Courting and wedding songs
69-73: Family songs
74-77: Lullabies
78-152: Children's rhymes
153-155: Conscripts' and soldiers' songs
156-159: Artisans' and workmen's songs
160-164: Religious and national songs
167-177: Humorous and satirical songs
178-185: Songs for festivals and holidays
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1971
Rise Up and Fight! Songs of the Jewish Partisans
(Compact Disc) Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Eighteen songs, mostly in Yiddish, based on poetry written by Jewish partisans. Accompanying booklet includes an essay by Dov Levin about the music folklore of the partisans, as well as English translations of the lyrics.
Material Type:
Recordings
Year:
1996
Tatzlil (The Chord): A Forum for Music Research and Bibliography
A semi-popular music periodical in Hebrew, founded and edited by Moshe Gorali. Contains many valuable articles on Jewish music, folklore and music and music and the Bible.
Material Type:
Journals
Year:
December 1990 - ??
Anthology of Yiddish Folksongs
Four volumes. The largest modern anthology of Yiddish songs with good Hebrew and English translations of the texts.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1983-1987
Folkslieder
Editor
The first volume of a projected multi-volume anthology of Jewish folklore
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1962
Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
Author
A pioneer American reprint of Beregovski’s music anthologies of Yiddish songs, klezmer tunes and Hassidic nigunnim coupled with translation of articles published in Soviet Russia.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1982
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.