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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… case in hearing a harmonic minor that ends on the lower melodic scale fifth step (Tarsi 2002). Tarsi suggests … melodies share the opening motive, the cadences, the higher melodic area of mm. 3–4, the leap of a sixth to the higher … “the tune Melngailis transcribed appears to be unique. Its similarity to the American spiritual ‘Glory, Glory …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… features, and spiritual power, emerging from structural, melodic, and rhythmic qualities. These two functions—the … is the detailed description of musical modes, scales, and melodic patterns of nigunim from Galician traditions brought … mystical-ritual function that predominates. Alongside this similarity between Yiddish folk songs and nigunim, there is …