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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 …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… the Month series (September, 2014) stressed the Ashkenazi melodies of this piyyut. It is worthwhile to reread our … performance. In spite of their different modality, the two melodies, the “common” or Western and the “alternative” or … ([David Aharon] De Sola [and Emmanuel Aguilar], “Sacred Melodies” [ Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… services has inspired many contemporary composers to write melodies set to this text. A number of melodies for 'Shema' Koleinu' written by Ashkenazi composers …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… into Jewish homes, more metric tunes (such as Hassidic melodies) took over texts of the Haggadah that were … Beth Israel, 1925) and Abraham W. Binder, Seder Melodies: The Hagaddah Set to Music: in Hebrew and English … (below) in his important songster Manginot shirenu: Hebrew melodies old and new, religious and secular (New York: …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual variations. Text Sources The text is … versions that differ from the Ottoman/Iraqi family of melodies. One of these melodies has a strong Andalusian character and is known in …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… in their original performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used … Sefer hashirim (Jerusalem, 1912). Idelsohn included two melodies of the song , attributing the text, as customary, … a vocalese or an instrumental passage. We publish here both melodies ( here and here ) for the first time, edited in …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… (oud, violin, lyre, qanun, frame drum) that echoes these melodies in instrumental interludes. Though the overall … version provides a flavor of makam Bayati. The vocal melodies of the other versions, in contrast, remain in a …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… analyse may be called a Cantorial Fantasia on traditional melodies – the term fantasia being taken in its general …
The “Proclamation Style” in Hebrew Music
… a striking characteristic of a group of ancient Jewish melodies. They are 'spinal' tones (Gerüsttöne, as Hornbostel …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Between Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz According to Ḥazzan Maier Levi … Between Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz According to Hazzan Maier Levi … of Jerusalem … Yuval Music Series … The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, …