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Paradigms of Arabic Modes in the Genizah Fragment Cambridge T.S. N.S. 90,4

… 9433 … Medieval … Middle Ages … Cairo Genizah … Geniza … Egypt … …

The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the Garden"

… Ibn Ezra … Poems … Music … Music theory … Compositions … Medieval … Middle Ages … Music history … The Musical Passage …

Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)

… Hebrew manuscript … Hebrew … Music theory … Judeo-Arabic … Medieval … Middle Ages … Music Treatise … Treatise … …

Figure 2: 'Enosh ʽad daka tashev' with the Indication Be-niggun ‘Akedah

Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac

… New Year festival. [2] In Ashkenazi Hebrew Literature Medieval chronicles and Kinah piyyutim (dirges) [3] … in monorhymed quatrains, and draw parallels between the medieval case of Kiddush Hashem and the ‘Akedah story, … texts,” claiming that some of them may date back to medieval times. He argues that this specific melody, which …

The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar

… וְהַמַּבְעִיר “She’eh ne’esar” is defined in most medieval Hebrew sources as a pizmon . It consists of four … (Venice, 1548). Although our piece is a poem by one of medieval Spain’s most distinguished poets, “She’eh ne’esar” … liturgical music sources. One source shows that in medieval Castile the poem had its own recognizable melody …

Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution

… are also unknown, although it is most probably a late medieval poem. A loose leaf in the Cairo Genizah contains … pp. 337-348). Figure 2. 'Bore 'ad ana,' Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , Israel Davidson As shown above in … list of printed sources by Israel Davidson’s Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry , “Bore ‘ad ana” was mostly known in …