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With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
… order to enable the listener to appreciate the variety of melodies and their combinations, while focusing on the basic … chose the stanzas that he wanted to sing, as well as the melodies and the transitions between them. This enables one …
Responsorial Singing
… pizmon refrains often sung to more well-defined metrical melodies. Although the responsorial form declined in Eastern …
The Tedeschian Community
… and these are apparent in the music: The piyyutim melodies are mostly borrowed from the surrounding culture, … the musical fashion outside the synagogue and the prayer melodies. On the other hand, the melodies for the Ta'amim of the Torah, Haftara and Megilot …
Heikhal Hanegina (the Hall of Music)
… the Heikhal Hanegina is the source of all of the world's melodies, and that it is close to, or the same, as the … of music. Amongst them, some strove either to compose new melodies, or to collect foreign melodies and fix them according to their own taste. That is …
Contrafactum
… reason is that new texts were written faster than new melodies and therefore one melody would be used for several …
Seliha-Selihot
… these poems are sung to a limited set of about twenty basic melodies, called Lehanim , each of which is adapted to …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… Hebrew Melody by Joseph Achron The Character of Jewish Folk Melodies The melodies of these composers – whether original or transcriptions of Jewish folk melodies – bear the earmarks that we identify with Klezmer …
Hora
… dance. The term is also used for two kinds of dance melodies in the Rumanian and Moldavian folklore: slow with … of two parts, slow and fast. These were accompanied by two melodies, the first with triple meter, and the second with … repertoire, the term Juck was used as a title of a pair of melodies, the slow and the fast Hora. 2 Yaakov Mazor, The …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… communities, from Yemen to Lithuania, developed unique melodies for the blessing, the Ashkenazi community had the richest assortment of melodies, compositions, and pieces written for the Priestly … the Ashkenazi communities to glorify it with unique melodies and singing. The Position of the Priestly …
Elohim Eshala
… is the then entrenched perception of the Yemenite Jewish melodies as surviving specimens of great antiquity, going … Western compositional techniques with the “authentic” melodies of the “Oriental” Jews. In the rich selection of …