… for emphasis, this English translation employs bold type. Full bibliographical references missing from the … a uniform physiognomy: a certain curve of soulful emotion, melodic structure, harmonic connection, and rhythmic design. … their own material, showing no particular interest in the melodic wealth of their own people. A treasure accumulated …

… This study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … 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 …

… based on motives from the Raml Maya mode, the refrain’s melodic movement and rhythm departs from recognizable …

… stress qarar-ghammaz relations, like a drone [See Appendix: Melodic Variants (S. Fakhri) mm. 1-2.]. His version is also … in Jewish Communities “Balini-b Balwa,”(بالين بلوة) a Melodic Variant of “Fog al-Nakhal” from Bombay   Among the … specifically to the interests of the Jewish community. This type of new Hebrew songs are intended for haflot (parties) …

… melodies with fixed meter with various permutations of melodic and rhythmic formations in-between these two … rather slow tempo gradually accelerates (2:04, 3:19). This melodic and rhythmic formula is identical to the one used to … are intoned by the entire congregation with a special melodic formula spanning a perfect fourth, in a call and …

… repertoire from Western Ukraine: Slow development of the melodic contour. From the three sections that compose this … the highest pitches in the whole piece. This rhythmic-melodic peak appears in the middle of the third section out … to Ashkenazi prayer [2] . Preference for overall upward melodic movement: the ascent from the subtonic to the tonic, …

… at a common source: flexible beat; four-phrase structure; melodic contour ascending to the fifth degree on “hashivenu” … Rossi’s possible allegiance to a Christian source. The melodic and contrapuntal qualities of the opening closely …

… its melismatic and recitative character, a looser beat. The melodic movement of B has two parts, the first of which … no. 66). Though similar in its modal minor setting and melodic contour to Sulzer’s, Wodak’s version is rhythmically … and more dense”] minor and Shtejger -scales.” These stereotypes of Eastern Ashkenazi liturgical modality should be …

… structure of “ Yom Yom Odeh ”, its complex modal and melodic style, Tabbach’s Arabic sounding Hebrew …

… piyyutim  from other liturgical texts, including other types of piyyutim  that mention the Binding of Isaac. [7]   … we regard the Niggun ‘Akedah  as a non-metrical flexible melodic formula which could be adapted to a varying … of the following prayer. In some cases, the transitional melodic line is developed into a bravura  on high notes. The …

… the B portion is repeated, creating a musical form of ABB. Melodic Outline The overall melodic structure, primarily in minor mode, consists of an … Blasco Sánchez and Adela Rubin. Here we see a fairly simple melodic outline, syllabic in nature, ascending and …

… It is possible to distinguish between two branches of melodic traditions associated with this piyyut : the … (D) or the tonic (A) in the other versions. The chromatic melodic movement in the stanzas is similar to that of “Ein …