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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… cantillation may seem antithetical to the kind of fusion of melody and speech that Judit Frigyesi describes in … Eastern Ashkenazi contexts. As Frigyesi observes, “Melody is not an additional element, but part and parcel of … it, and vice versa: text is inconceivable without its melody” (2000, abstract). And yet, the idea of a fusion of …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… IMHM, F 13782). Even more interesting is the mention of the melody of Shofet kol ha’aretz in the manuscript of the … appears the superscription “Be-niggun [according to the melody of] Shofet kol ha’aretz.” This is the earliest … this manuscript there was an awareness that a traditional melody for Shofet kol ha’aretz was already in place and …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… ensemble, The Chevra, [6] Abie Rotenberg (whose melody appears on the fourth album of the band, Dveykus), … chose to take a different compositional route and set the melody in the major scale. In Ashkenazi cantorial music, the … Yet, Friedman nevertheless succeeded in creating a moving melody that suggests a new way of interpreting Shema’ …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music research rarely … the 20th century. Two notable publications containing the melody are Israel Goldfarb and Samuel E. Goldfarb, The … early 20 th century, we should mention the presence of this melody in the exceptionally popular A. M. Silbermann and …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Tradition A. Z. Idelsohn first published the Ottoman/Iraqi melody in 1922-23, with two versions published in two … the Jews from Ottoman Salonica from whom he heard this melody in Jerusalem. [7] While the Babylonian version (which … not associated with a particular time, and specified as a melody in the Turkish mode makam husseyni . Characteristic …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… pp. 38-39, titled “Shir ha-mayim”) without the melody. It is attributed to Ibn Gabirol and prefaced with the following note: “sing it with the known melody.” What could that melody be? A viable answer can be found in the most …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… does not support the audio element. Sung to a similar melody to that of the recording above, below is a recorded … in Saltiel’s version that illustrates its connection to the melody. Measures consisting of two and three primary beats … grouped into sections, and placed below the section of the melody to which they correspond (from the melodic ABB form). …

The “Proclamation Style” in Hebrew Music
… The melody-style we want to deal with here is quite well known … being always a simple, summarizing one. In our opinion this melody-group, unified by the dominant role of these 'spinal' … sorts of structures … 10570 … Hebrew Music … Hebrew Melody … Proclamation … Melody … Melodic structure … Jewish …

The Concept of Mode in European Synagogue Chant
… or provinces; prose or poetical texts; recitative or 'melody' character of the tune; different period and …

The Hasidic Dance-Niggûn - A Study Collection and its Classificatory Analysis
… the problem of the definition of the Hasidic nigg û n (melody of the Hasidic patrimony proper) as follows: 'By one … traditional terms - according to which they judge whether a melody is 'hasidic' or not, and to which dynasty style and …