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Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
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Angelo Conegliano, Leo Levi


This melody for Psalm 114, celebrating the Exodus, is a revealing example of the "Pan Italian repertoire." Sung during the Passover services in the Italian rites of Ferarra (as documented here) and Rome, it also appears in the Sephardi repertoires of Livorno and Venice as a "Melodic Marker" of this holiday. 

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