The organisation "Khilot sharot" has a new piyut page now available under the address of the National Library:
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/he/song
Although there is one page in English, it mainly guides to the old page. I wondered what has become of it, because the web archive did not work any longer.
Now I checked and I have some good news. All former links beginning "www.piyut.org.il" still do work just change them into "old.piyut.org.il". Most of the sound examples do work now.
Here is the old English version:
http://old.piyut.org.il/english/
and here is the archive of the old page:
http://old.piyut.org.il/search/english/
which offers many options to search through it:
- you can choose "Jewish Ethnic Traditions", and this would be the link to traditional recordings made in Morocco: http://old.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/close_search.pl?lang=en&act=categories&Tradition=8&Notes=&teiman=&Scripts=
- you can choose recordings related to certain piyyut poets who composed the texts: http://old.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/close_search.pl?lang=en&act=authors
- you can choose "Yearly cycle" for poems composed for certain feasts: http://old.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/close_search.pl?lang=en&act=yearcycles
- you can choose "Life cycle" for poems created for private ceremonies like brith (Brit Mila), birth ceremonies for daughters, wedding ceremonies and Bar/t Mitzwa: http://old.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/close_search.pl?lang=en&act=lifecycles
- you can choose musicological criteria like "musical scales" which offer you "maqam" and "nuba" (it actually means Andalusian modes tubū' used for the composition of nawba suites): http://old.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/close_search.pl?lang=en&act=ladders
- you can choose "Shirat Habaqashot", if you are interested in Baqashot traditions as they exist in Turkey, Iraq ("Babylon"), Aleppo ("Haleb"), Morocco and among Sephardim of Jerusalem: http://old.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/close_search.pl?lang=en&act=requests
- you can choose an alphabetic register of the transcribed incipits: http://old.piyut.org.il/cgi-bin/close_search.pl?lang=en&act=alphabetic
Please try it out!
By the way, this is the address of the Hebrew manuscript department:
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