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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in … the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will … and speech that Judit Frigyesi describes in traditional Eastern Ashkenazi contexts. As Frigyesi observes, “Melody is …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish Communities in the East, the Center for the Study of Judaeo-Arabic Culture and …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… in the Sephardic liturgy and appears also, since at least the early eighteenth century, in the Yemenite rite … is that this Western Ashkenazi source apparently moved eastwards, as it contains many Eastern Ashkenazi texts added later in its margins. Through …
Tanya Sermer
… and her Ph.D. in musicology and ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Tanya … of space. She plays piano, guitar, oud, and Middle Eastern percussion, and has worked as an instructor, …
Antología De Liturgia Judeo-Española
… … 1 … 33898 … Jerusalem … … 10 Volume series … 1964-1980 … Eastern Sephardi … Isaac Levy … Antología De Liturgia …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes two illuminating … passing tones, 2, 7flat and 7 that hints to a more Eastern European character. Baer Ma Nishtana, 1877 Close … Menorah, 1933), which has been published since then in at least eight editions in several different languages. …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual … is sung only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern communities. It is possible to distinguish between … devoted to the Babylonian (Iraqi) Jews and the other to the Eastern Sephardic Jews, as he calls the Jews from Ottoman …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… by the 18 th century Sephardim sang Kikhlot yeini , at least in Italy and perhaps even in Baghdad, on Purim. The …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… traditions in the greater Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern world, became blended to a degree with local …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… of man, and therefore given to produce natural laws, or at least some regularities that can be relied upon in the …