Sephardic music
Sephardic music is the Sephardic Jews own music, Sephardic Jews are Ashkenazim and Mizrahim with one of the three main ethnic branches of the Diaspora Jews. The Sephardim were originally focused on the Iberian Peninsula, but are now spread throughout the Mediterranean region, as they also have lived for centuries among the Mizrahim. The Spanish Jewry nevertheless remains the center of a popular " Sephardic " style of music.
The Sephardic music was born in medieval Spain, presented by Cancioneros at princely courts. Since then she has taken influences from Morocco, Argentina, Turkey, Greece and various Spanish folk music styles from Spain and elsewhere. There are three types of Sephardic songs - ballads and entertainment songs, romance and spiritual or liturgical chants. The texts can be presented in different languages , including Hebrew for religious songs and Ladino.
These song traditions spread from Spain to Morocco (the " Western tradition " ) and in parts of the Ottoman Empire ( "Eastern tradition " ) with Greece, Jerusalem, the Balkans and Egypt. The Sephardic music adapted itself to each region: the North African high-sounding extended Heultönen; Balkan rhythms, for example, in 9/8-Takt; and the Turkish maqam ( mode).
The singers are traditionally mostly women who sing while doing housework. These songs are usually unaccompanied. There is no harmony. Tambourines and other percussion instruments are sometimes used, especially in wedding songs. Additionally accompany Oud and Kanun musician, performer today relate countless other imported instruments with.
Beginning of the 20th century were some popular commercial recordings of Sephardic music in Greece and Turkey, later published in Jerusalem and other parts of the Eastern tradition. The first performers were mostly men, including the Turks Jack Mayesh, Haim Efendi and Yitzhak Algazi. Later, a new generation of singers came on, many of them were not themselves Sephardic Jews. Gloria Levy, and Flory Jagoda Pasharos Sefardíes were well-known interpreters of this Eastern tradition period. Yasmin Levy is one of a new generation of singers who interpret the Ladino / Judeo - Spanish heritage and new kombinierien with Andalusian Flamenco. Turkey has abolished the Sephardic music group Sefarad in the Top Ten.