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Q: jewish music?
who's your favorite singer(jewish music)?
mine is avraham fried(undesputed king of jewish music:-) )
A: Ofra Haza, Chava Albertson, Uzi Chitman, Rabbi Joe Black (he mostly sings kids songs but his voice is good), Abie Rotenberg (again mostly kids songs but the songs are nice and his voice is good). Eyal Golan is good. Nina is good but not in the top for me at least.
Personally for me, it is Ofra Haza all the way. Have you ever heard her song "Daw Da Hiya"? I think it is both English and Hebrew (I can't remember for sure) but she could knock em' dead.
It is too bad she died. She was talented and beautiful.
As for Avraham Fried, you are right, he is probably the best at Chassidic melodies, yes but I prefer the more pop/rock music style.
Q: Where can I find Jewish and Israeli Piano sheet music?
I'm looking for a general sheet music website for Jewish or Israeli music. I'm specifically looking for:
Arim Roshi by Shai Gabso
Tatte by Yakov Shwekey
Im Eshkocheich by Yakov Shwekey
Any idea where I can find something like this?
A: You can try various music stores. Or,
www.judaicawebstore.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=NMC-99 - 35k - http://www.hebrewsongs.com/search.asp?TransliteratedTitle=&NewSongWords=&PageNo=1&SearchThis=shai+gabso&SearchField=All&OrderBy=TransliteratedTitle
http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?song=arimroshi
http://www.jewishaustralia.com/shop/
good luck!
Q: Does anyone know any Biblical or Jewish Proverbs that have to do with music?
I'm looking for Biblical Proverbs that have something to do with music or sounds. I'm especially interested in Jewish proverbs, but anything that you might know would be appreciated.
A: These are verbatim from the Holy Bible: Hope it helps. For more info visit the website below:
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God." -Collosians 3:16
"Addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart." -Ephesians 5:19
"Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth;
break forth into joyous song and sing praises!
5 Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
with the lyre and the sound of melody!
6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn
make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!"
-Psalm 98:4,5,6
http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Psalm+98
http://www.libertygospeltracts.com/biblecrs/music/music1.htm
Q: I'm looking for some good Jewish accordion music. Any recomendations?
I don't know anything about jewish music, and I heard some good tunes by the Irish group DeDannan. I would like to find more upbeat accordion music similar to that.
A: See below.
Q: What music do "J.A.Ps" (jewish american princesses) listen to?
For school i have to write a monologue based on a character stereotype and my person is a J.A.P and i need a song to go along with my monologue. I am Jewish but there isnt any specific type of music that i listen to that i think would be considered "J.A.Ppy". So i just need some opinions of what people might think J.A.Ps listen to. Specific songs and artists would be helpful. Thanks!
A: oh my, what an interesting assignment. I would imagine that you would want a song dealing with materalistic thing? That's the only thing I really know about that stereotype.
What about "I want to be a supermodel" by
Jill Sobule?
Q: Is music important to Jewish religion and culture?
If so, what role does music play in Jewish spiritual life?
I can think of at least 2 religions that discourage music- Islam (music, like alcohol, leads to loss of control) and Buddhism (monks abstain from music twice a month).
A: Yes, it is. Since about three thousand years ago music took a prominent role in Jewish religion and culture. King David and all Israelite kings would maintain a permanent choir of Levites in the Temple just to sing the Psalms during religious services. Today then, in every Synagogue even the prayers are sung instead of just lip serviced.
Q: Does anyone know anything about music at Jewish weddings?
I'm getting married in october and we are having a jewish wedding. Does anyone know how music is typically handled at a Jewish ceremony? I'm not sure what type of music is usually played, either. I know the ceremony is typically pretty short, so i dont know if it is worth it to have live musicians there. I'm stuck on what to do. I'm afraid live musicians might be booked by now, and i think it might be corny to have recorded music....can anyone help? Any great ideas?
Thank you!!
A: Try this: http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/398_jewish_wedding_music.htm
At Jewish weddings, the entrance of the bride is accompanied by a tune called Baruch Haba. After the ceremony there is a traditional dance called the Hora. This is a circle dance, with the men circling the groom and the women circling the bride, etc. etc.
Q: Traditional Jewish Music?
Being Jewish in heritage I am presenting a simplified version of the passover tomorrow for a group, and some traditional Jewish Music would really set a good atmosphere for Jewish culture. However, I don't have any music, so what cd/who would you recomend for background music? Or a website where I could download some?
A: Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack is nice.
Q: What's considered Jewish Music?
Please define what exactly is considered Jewish music? is it music by a jew? or is it have to have a certain style? Does it have to be only hebrew lyrics?
A: I would say that music written or compsed by a Jew does not make it Jewish music. That makes it plainly music made by a Jew. Jewish music would be music relating to the religion. An example of a group that produces jewish music is the chevra. http://www.thechevra.com/ is their website
Q: What makes Jewish music Jewish?
Is it the words or the music or both? Most jewish music these days have goyishe tunes...what makes them Jewish?
sorry. i should have said that i was looking for jewish answers...
Any Jewish music like the Chevra, Avraham Fried, MBD, MBC, YBC, etc.
the tunes are usually not jewish. why is it still considered Jewish music?
A: I love this question, too, and did some research a while ago. Just like Jews and Jewish food, our music comes in all nationalities and flavors: Ladino, Kletzmer, Mizrahi, Israeli Folk, Classical, and Hassidic Nigunim. Yiddish and Kletzmer from Eastern Europe, for example has become identified as "Jewish" when actually it's originally indigenous to Goyishke Eastern European folk or worse burlesque (a friend played some of the original tunes and words and translated the Yiddish - it would burn your ears--heavy metal has nothing on it!). So there has been a conversion process with all these types of music so to speak. Cossack dances, Polish military marches, East European folk songs, Near Eastern dance tunes, Turkish chants, Ladino folk, and even Central European waltzes were all secular and non-Jewish melodies that could be transformed into Jewish music, even Holy nigunim or chants. This was not considered a problem for Hasidim. On the contrary, Hasidic thought contains a notion of tikkun (literally, "fixing"), whereby non-Jewish or secular melodies can be spiritually redeemed and restored to their religious state by being sung as meditations, either with new religious lyrics or without words altogether.
According to a well known tale, the Kalever Tsadik, Isaac Eizik (Toib) of Kalev (1744-1821), was once walking in the Ukrainian forest when he heard a pastoral shepherd singing a love song in Ukrainian. The Hasid was captivated by the song, whose lyrics spoke of the shepherd's longing for his love, separated from him by the vast forest. The Hasidic Rebbe took the song and translated the lyrics into Yiddish, replacing the lyrics' description of secular love with a description of his soul's longing for the Shekhina, the mystical divine presence (of God). He then asked the shepherd to sing the song, but the young man found he had forgotten it. Whereupon the Hasid exclaimed, ""I have purified the nigun and returned it to its holy sources!"
Or, stories are also told where tunes can start out sacred, and then go through the secular world and back again -- like “A Gilgul fun a Niggun” (“The Transmigration or Reincarnation of a Melody”): The tale is about a nigun/melody that wanders from town to town in Eastern Europe. The nigun begins its life as a wedding melody composed for a Hasidic rebbe, then wanders from town to town in Eastern Europe where various people hear it and borrow it temporarily. From the wedding, it goes on to become a Jewish memorial prayer in another shtetl, then moves via Kiev to the Yiddish theater in Warsaw, only to end up being played as a poor organ-grinder's tune in the circus. The nigun's wanderings continue from house to house, person to person, town to town, and, eventually, back to the Hasidic rebbe. But the melody's migration is not yet done. At the tale's end, it departs with one of its bearers to a new destination: America.
Breath, sound, rhythm, tunes, and lyrics can communicate the Divine Presence. The transformation from secular to Jewish involves that Divine Presence. If it still sounds secular or non-Jewish, it's because it still lacks the rectification or tikkun. This is why some Rock can sound Jewish and some not so Jewish, or why some Burlesque Kletzmer can and some not. As far as how that gets put into the music, it just is done by people who have it. The music is a conveyor or door or reflection of some Ruach Jews know and carry.
"There are gates in heaven that cannot be opened except by melody and song." -Zohar
Q: jewish music in baseball?
Hi everyone
I just want to know what the music is called, it's played during baseball games and even basketball games to get people to clap and cheer.
I think i've heard it at jewish wedding events, that's why I think its jewish
can anyone let me know more of the music/song please. It's really good i want to get it! Thanks
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hava_Nagila
check this out...
Q: I love jewish music but im not jewish..?
ok like what i mean by jewish music is like the type of music that they play at jewish wedding in hebrew. i love going to jewish wedding because of that!lol um is it kinda weird for someone who is not of a religion but still loves the religions music?
A: I adore Indian music but I'm not Hindu, I'm listening to Michael W. Smith right now but I'm not Christian, I love Celtic music and I'm only a teeny bit Irish.
Who cares? If you like it, enjoy it.
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Q: do jewish people like john zorn's music, or think it's blasphemous?
i wouldn't imagine anyone would have a problem with the acoustic masada stuff, but what about his stuff that combines traditional jewish music with avante gard, metal, and other forms of 'subversive' styles?
also- i'm not jewish, but i love jewish music, so recommend some...
A: You know the stereotypical generation gap, where some people don't like certain types of music and can get a bit grouchy about it? You might find something like that, with various expressions of disapproval. But 'blasphemous', not the music. Although the Crowley/Hermetic references will raise some eyebrows.
All musics take on different forms as the cultures (and/or musicians) move and interact. Jewish culture has moved so much that there are many different forms that can be called 'traditional Jewish music'. Zorn is what happens when you live in NYC long enough.
Q: Anyone here who has knowledge about Jewish music?
I am interested in studying Jewish music. Will also post in the music section.
A: You're going to have to get more specific than that, I'm afraid. :)
Our people have spread to virtually every corner of the globe, and the cultural impact has been profound. My favorite style of Jewish music, for example, consists largely of religious poetry written by the Jews of the Levant. To the untrained ear, it sounds like Arabic music, when in fact, it's in Hebrew, and the songs themselves are often inspired from the Bible or an ancient Jewish liturgical tradition.
Perhaps you mean klezmer? This is a style of Eastern European folk music that for many has become synonymous with "Jewish music" (imagine Hava Nagila being played on the clarinet). In fact, as it happens, I'm currently studying in Hungary and was talking to someone about this style of music. They knew of klezmer, but it did not have for them the connotation of being specifically Jewish. Weird, huh? In any event, to me, Romani (Gypsy) music and Jewish klezmer music are nearly indistinguishable.
In any event, Jewish music has changed so much over different time periods and in different places. Then there's modern Israeli music, much of which isn't particularly Jewish per se, but from what I've heard, the Israelis are known for producing really good techno music.
If you could clarify your question as to whether you're looking for info on Ashkenazi musical traditions, Oriental traditions, Biblical music (note that many psalms begin with instructions as to what instruments should accompany them, and no doubt did, when the Temple stood), etc., I'll see what I can find for you.
Q: Jewish kids music?
I watched some jewish music show and it featured some jewish kits singing they were called something like shasheals jr does anyone know the real name of there group do they have a website/
A: is this the same group??
http://shalsheles.com/
sample
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/176316