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Doyne (LKT)
… consists of a few other horns pedaling on the notes of the chords... The phrasing in the entire selection is very … by local bands, the doina features intermittent backing chords that supply a tonal center. The opening unmetered … basic sound of the doina is unmistakeable: sparse back-up chords against which a soloist improvises a weaving, …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… cancelling the Bb. The contrast between these two major chords is very strong, like a burst of light. The bVII … article includes a statistical table of transitions between chords. They show that the tonic chord is the most …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… the seventh scale step, either by employing incomplete chords or by using plagal cadences. This suggests a …
“Der Rebe geht schon tanzen” (chassidisch) – The Rabbi is about to Dance (Hasidic)
… and even reinforces the melodic line with punctuated chords. It accentuates the hopping dance with its short eighth-note chords and the persistent ostinato of an octave on the tonic …
“Schlof majn Kind, ich wel dich wigen” (Wiegenlied) – Sleep my child, I will cradle you (Lullaby)
… by a leaning quarter-note chord in the right hand. Chords remote from the main tonality – i.e. B# diminished …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… is found in the use of subdominant and the median chords. This strategy is clear in the different …
“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
… chord. He challenges the listener with unexpected, charged chords. At the very beginning of the piece instead of the … Throughout this tune’s arrangement the pertinent dissonant chords color the poem with a modern, realistic flavor, …
Lied ohne Worte (chassidisch)
… in favor of a fixed syncopated accompaniment of dissonant chords on the off-beats that challenge the sense of the …
A Nigun on a soff (chassidisch) – A Tune without Ending
… of this number is furthermore obscured by the dissonant chords of the piano. The progression consisting of clashing superposed sevenths chords in the very two opening bars announces a bold …
Hebräischer Tanz (Original aufgenommen von S. Kisselgoff) – Hebrew Dance (Originally transcribed by S. Kisselgoff)
… line from bar 3 sustains a second interval answering bass chords that are tense and clashing with the melody. The end …