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2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… on the sacrifice of Isaac) Im afes rova' ha-qen by the Ashkenazi poet Ephrayim ben Itzhak of Regensburg (c. … this calamity, God can trust the faithfulness of the Jewish people as Abraham demonstrated by obeying the order to sacrifice his own son Isaac. The inclusion of an Ashkenazi poem in the Sephardic liturgy is exceptional. In …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… for only the sons [of the locals] and a few old people still maintain it. The officiating cantor who comes … citizens, to align themselves within the rigid Sephardic/Ashkenazi binary. The only document we possess for the … also shows traces of autochthonous chants and even some Ashkenazi melodies. [3] The farandole is an open-chain dance …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… among the different regions inhabited by eastern Ashkenazim, which since the seventeenth century had been … the Hebrew zemiroth —chants) , that evolved in the eastern Ashkenazi communities before the emergence of Hasidism and … infinitely richer than those available to Hasidim, ordinary people whose vocal abilities were rather limited. …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… universe can be stated without mathematics in a form that people without a scientific education can understand … can be stated without music examples in a form that people without a technical musical education can understand. … summary article on the cantillation of the Bible, “Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation, An Interpretive Analysis, …