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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, contours, … present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi … will find that the Haftarah and High Holiday melodies have features in common, including the scale and focal pitches, …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… again the Song of the Month to this text, that was already featured is previous years, in order to analyze two new … musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous feature on Shofet kol ha’aretz in the Song of the Month … the “common” melody into one type. He also points out the features that separate these three sub-types. Avenary shows …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… the melodic progressions of the song reveal the following features: Part A : There are two similar moments of calling … films were milestones in the history of popular music in feature animated films. Alan Menken composed the music for …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
Some scientific enterprises, like good wine, mature over a long period of time. The…
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 13–16; Dreeßen 1971, 9–31; Frakes 2014, 149–155). The poem features the same monorhymed four-line stanzas used for the … modern compositional technique and the fact that no such feature has been found in any of the other transcriptions of … circulated we will nevertheless suggest that some of its features situate it within medieval European musical …
Moshe Attias
… in terms of textual genres and musical styles. Yet, one feature remained constant, and it is his allegiance to … as the main language of communication. This very remarkable feature demonstrates his resistance to the Hebrew-centered …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… that people attached to it. And my assumption that it featured a Jewish singer from Aleppo, together with my … that happen “off the map”, each of the article’s scenes features a different narrative of and/or attachment to the … they gained no insights into the identity of the singer featured on the famous record. In fact, it was only towards …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… written down, these fluctuations of the text became a fixed feature. Figure 2. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer … “She’eh ne’esar” commonwealth. Another distinctive feature of Weiss’ version is the flattening of tone 2 (the …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… impede access for the general readership. The introduction features detailed documentation of the Melngailis project as … keys. Yet, among these forty-two songs in minor, only four feature the leading tone in their melody (nos. 9, 21, 26 and … published by Ginzburg and Marek (1901), but Small’s version features a new section, most likely a chorus he added to a …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… a refrain dividing the song into “strophes,” a peculiar feature discussed widely in the scholarly literature about … 80 in the same liturgical section. We shall return to this feature later. Right now, let us move to the musical … the three performances share some important features hinting at a common source: flexible beat; …