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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… be apparent. [59] Similarly, Kofi Agawu writes, “Analysis sharpens the listener’s ear, enhances perception and, in the …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… 5. Part B is clearly minor, including the leading tone (C sharp). This modal contrast between the sections create a …
The Biblical NEBEL
… 9434 … Biblical … Music … Harp … Ancient Israel … Ancient music … Ancient Instruments …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… his key signatures are more complicated than required: F sharp, D sharp alongside naturals on C and G, avoiding four sharps that would imply E major. But F sharp in the key …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Berlin’s melodies they knew from a dozen titles, showed a sharply diminishing recognition the younger the respondent. …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Ethiopian musical instruments including the krar (harp) , masinqo (one stringed fiddle), washint (flute) and …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… The Hebrew tune of the Galilee workers provided not only a sharp contrast to the previous musical imagery, but also an …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… musical worlds by means of two widely separated keys, F sharp minor and D Dorian F, slow versus fast tempo and …
“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
… tonic chord, an F is played in the bass line creating a sharp dissonance with the G in the melody. Further in the … minor. The last chord in bar 4 is half diminished on D – a sharp twitching surprise in a moment of expected release and …
Chassidisches Lied – Hasidic Song
… Hassidic style melody depicts an assertive character in sharp contrast to the irony of Bulbe . Stutschewsky …