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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… years upwards of 300,000 people. It is raucous, loud and features ecstatic dances, songs and bonfires. A central …
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…
A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… based on phonetic criteria. He also differentiated phonetic features which are to be considered ancient, from others, … the various ethnic groups should carry over the distinctive features of their traditional liturgical pronunciations into …
Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… in other parts of the Jewish world; its most characteristic feature is the ritualistic study of the book, which is quite …
Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… (Sherratt 1992; Knapp 2008). Mycenaean cultural features did however endure and evolve within this receptive …
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 …