- A
nigun (Hebrew: ניגון
meaning "tune" or "melody",
plural nigunim) or
niggun (plural niggunim) is a form of
Jewish religious song or tune sung by groups...
- text study, meditation,
silence and retreat,
diary practices,
chanting (
nigunim), contemplation, visualization, tzedakah, and
doing good
deeds on behalf...
- the
trade of
songs between nations speaking different languages.
Jewish Nigunim also
feature wordless melodies composed entirely of
vocables such as Yai...
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Music in the 20th
century has
spanned the
gamut from
Shlomo Carlebach's
nigunim to
Debbie Friedman's
Jewish feminist folk, to the many
sounds of Daniel...
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Melodies (1963)
Skulaner Nigunim -
Oidchu Hashem (1968)
Melodies of Camp Kol-Ree-Nah (1969) Ch****idic
Nigunim (1971)
Skulaner Nigunim 2 (1977)
Melitzer Oneg...
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Gaelic communities.
Hasidic Jews use a form of
voice improvisation called nigunim. This
consists of
wordless tunes vocalized with
sounds such as "Bim-bim-bam"...
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music combines the
wordless vocals and
improvised nature of
traditional nigunim with
elements folk, jazz, soul, reggae, and ska.
Influences cited by the...
-
album Songs of the
Rebbes includes various Lubavitch, Belz, and
Sephardi nigunim and
zemirot – as well as
secular American music, such as Eric Clapton,...
- niggunim.
There are
nigunim for
private meditation,
often in prayer,
called devekus nigunim.
These are
usually slower than
communal nigunim, and
without lyrics...
- Ch****idic
Nigunim Vol. 1 (1968)
Songs of Camp Kol-Ree-Nah (1969) "Ch****idic
Nigunim" (1970) Ger
Holiday Songs (1973)
Gerer Favorites (1974)
Skulaner Nigunim 2...
