S’lichos: Midnight Penitential Service
Composer
For cantor (Baritone or tenor), mixed chorus and organ.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1962
Yinon
Author
Hebrew poems of the Israeli- Turkish poet, writer and composer Isaac Eliyahu Navon. Includes religious poems of redemption and faith, secular poems of morality, criticism, love and glory, and an introduction about the background of Navon an his writing.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1932
Yona Homiya
Author
12 Sephardic songs. The book contains songs that were either written, composed, or sung by Yitzhak Eliyahu Navon. Includes words and music. Edited and published by Yitzhak Levi, for the preservation of Sephardi folk music.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1950
The great cantor of Baghdad : the liturgical poems of Joseph Ben Hayyim al-Baradani
Piyyutei Rabbi Shimon Bar-Isaac: Venispahim Lahem Piyyutei Rabi Mosheh Bar-Kalonymos
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1938
Algeria show, Ud & Pyiyut 2005
Material Type:
Books
Year:
2005
The Singing of the Sephardi Piyyut in Cochin (India)
Mizimrat Qedem
En buen simán – Panorama del repertorio sefardí
Three Synagogue Chants of the Twelfth Century
Author
Author
This collection includes arrangements for voice (with piano or organ accompaniment) of the three chants that were discovered on two manuscripts originating from the Cairo Geniza: 1. "Mi’al har Horev" 2. "Wa-Eda’ mah" and 3. "Baruk’ Hag-Gever." The hymn texts are included in Hebrew (romanized) and are also printed separately in Hebrew, English, French, and German.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1969
- 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.