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The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… defined melody usually sung by the congregation. The prayer melodies were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and … his books with signs indicating the foreign sources to the melodies at the opening of each piyyut . Piyyutim during the … 1830 and died in Cairo in 1919. He composed many texts for melodies that become an integral part of the Aleppan Jewish …
Valtzer (LKT)
… danced until daybreak... The klezmorim played all kinds of melodies for the dances. The dancers requested ‘tents’ …
Zemerl (LKT)
… The klezmorim would play until late at night. Their melodies were known by the names ‘zmires’ or ‘ …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (1932), which is dedicated to Yiddish song (example … Except for the leap of a fourth in the opening phrase, both melodies feature simple stepwise progression. Additionally, except for the cadences, the rhythm of the melodies progresses in eighth notes. The second variant is …
Karev Yom
… non-Hassidic Ashkenazi tradition that frowns upon rhythmic melodies of the kind of the “common” ‘Karev yom’? …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… Israel,’ the name of the Hebrew version of Byron’s Hebrew Melodies ] ---translated by Yehudah Leib Gordon [published … We used to sing other more important songs according to the melodies by… [Leon] Igly, who was a student at the … [and later on an opera singer in that city]. He composed melodies for two songs about Rishon Le-Tziyyon. One by Imber …
Vantsef (LKT)
… danced until daybreak... The klezmorim played all kinds of melodies for the dances. The dancers requested ‘tents’ …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… the last stanzas of this piyyut with a variety of rhythmic melodies, a tradition that was maintained in the modern … Hag Purim’ served as the seventh out of the seven dance melodies used for the seven Hakkafot with the Torah Scrolls …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… revealed in part by acquaintance with some of the beautiful melodies of this collection… It is, therefore, important to record the melodies associated with the early stages of the rebuilding … attributions for composers or lyricists, though two of the melodies are indicated as “Yemenite” in origin and one is …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… congregations around the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of … “Torah trope” (the mode of Torah reading). The six sets of melodies are used as follows: (1) one for Torah readings on … functions. We will find that the Haftarah and High Holiday melodies have features in common, including the scale and …