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Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… of Jewish and Samaritan musical traditions. Samaritan liturgy was a special subject of his interest and he … Avigdor was himself an important carrier of the Hungarian Ashkenazi liturgical tradition and therefore he documented … the Holy Land. Another special interest for Herzog was the Ashkenazi repertoire of zemiroth Shabbat (Sabbath table …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This is a short extract of the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical … Israel and international festivals. The performance of the liturgy, that daily, weekly and yearly spiritual diet that … by the congregation in our recording, in a suspiciously Ashkenazi-tinged tonal structure, most probably derive as we …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… for four voices a capella (substituting older improvised Ashkenazi forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on … sphere. Among other well-entrenched concepts in studies of Ashkenazi liturgical music, this study will also challenge … ) developed under the direction of PI Seroussi. … A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… about Jewish cowboys (Gottlieb 2004, 64). Also Yemenite-Ashkenazi intermarriages in Israel during the 1930s and … which system of accentuation served the interlocutors—the Ashkenazi system, where the accent most often falls on the … Jewish work. [4] On plagal harmonic minor in the Ashkenazi liturgy, see Levine 2001, 19. [5] The volume includes …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… ne'esar' in his A Voice Still Heard: The Sacred Song of the Ashkenazic Jews (University Park and London, 1976, pp. … the well-entrenched presence of Sephardic poetry in Ashkenazi prayer, and the overall musical style of the … Melodies , dedicated to the Eastern European Ashkenazi liturgy (1932, no. 211). This melody is in a different mode, …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of … as will be shown below. Strongly affiliated with the liturgy of the High Holidays, the Niggun ‘Akedah served … reviews the great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were …

The Concept of Mode in European Synagogue Chant
… The subject of investigation is the Ashkenazi synagogue mode called Adosem malak shtejger … the tune; different period and authorship of notation. … Ashkenazi people … 9433 … Ashkenazi … Ashkenazim … Ashkenazi liturgy … Ashkenazi cantorate … Shteiger … Melodies … …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… of the major publications undertaken in the field of the Ashkenazi liturgy. We quote from the introduction to the book: … most significant transcriptions of the oral tradition of Ashkenazic ḥazzanut. More specifically, this compendium, …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and interpretations of … text. A number of melodies for 'Shema' Koleinu' written by Ashkenazi composers in the twentieth century are in the … route and set the melody in the major scale. In Ashkenazi cantorial music, the major scale and its …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 1. Bavaria/Frankfurt-Main 2. Venizia/Gorizia 3. Province Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi 3 Ashkenazi/Sephardi 4 … of the morning service for Rosh Hashanah in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early …