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The Influence of Choral Elements on the Formation and Development of the Piyyût Genres (Hebrew)
… period the vocal participation of the congregation in the prayers was minimal. It is excluded by the early … The same attitude also prevailed in Italy and in the Ashkenazic area, and is similarly reflected by the piyyûtim …

The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… the kohanim stand barefoot in front of the ark with their prayer shawls covering their heads, bodies and hands, with … for the ritual and they are all worthy of research. Yet the Ashkenazi traditions have developed the richest variety of … chants, melodies and compositions for the PB. … 9593 … Ashkenazi … Ashkenazim … Ashkenazi prayer … Blessings … …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Niggun ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of … reviews the great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were … the story of the Binding of Isaac entered the Ashkenazi prayer rite. These poems, known as ‘Akedah piyyutim , are …
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 melody which …
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 … 2002. “Lower Extension of the Minor Scale in Ashkenazi Prayer Music”, Indiana Theory Review 23: 153–83. …
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 … as Protestant versus Catholic environments informed Ashkenazi synagogue musical practices. The innovative …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… degrees, recall older strata of the Eastern European Ashkenazi music. This mode is common in prayer tunes, in the Yiddish folk song and in the old … of these two intervals represents another link to Ashkenazi prayer [2] . Preference for overall upward melodic …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… Moroccan Jewish worship, namely daily, weekly and holiday prayers, has been hardly analyzed contextually. Unlike the … registers: biblical and oral law passages, post-biblical prayers in poetic prose and poems (piyyutim) spanning almost … by the congregation in our recording, in a suspiciously Ashkenazi-tinged tonal structure, most probably derive as we …
Raza Deshabbat
… eve, and regard it as a bridge between the daily afternoon prayer and Kabbalat Shabbat (the Service of Welcoming the … cantor Pierre Pinchik (1895-1971). … Or Haganuz: Gems of Ashkenazi Hazzanut and Yiddish Songs Revived … Ashkenazi cantorate … Ashkenazi liturgy … Chazzanut … …
Lied ohne Worte (chassidisch)
… a total spiritual experience is beyond words, even those of prayer. Experiencing dvekut , i.e. the cleaving with God, … Stutschewsky, ibid. … Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes … Ashkenazim … Cello - Violoncello … Folk songs … Joachim …