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Betzet Israel
… This Melody for Psalm 114 celebrating the Exodus is a revealing …
Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans)
… rallies and so on. The refrain alone but with the entire melody was used as accompaniment for the Hora. Almost … the present version the song is performed antiphonally. The melody judging by its style may be a Hasidic dance tune. At any rate the melody of the refrain is based on motives that make up the …
“Unter dem kinds Wiegele” – Beneath the Baby’s Cradle
… dem Kinds Wiegele” arranged by Joel Engel The lullaby’s melody opens with calm, even quarter notes and is reinstated … within a narrow tonal range and slow tempo. The melody flows above a persistent eights-note sway in the … tones as well as by rhythmic groupings independent from the melody’s phrasing. Nevertheless, the ending on an A major …
“Der Rebe geht schon tanzen” (chassidisch) – The Rabbi is about to Dance (Hasidic)
… inversion IV (D) on bars 5 and 15. The doubling of the melody’s sixteen notes in bars 9, 19, 20 stands out. Here, …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… the prominent color of the augmented second colors the melody in distinguished oriental style. See the archival …
“Schlof majn Kind, ich wel dich wigen” (Wiegenlied) – Sleep my child, I will cradle you (Lullaby)
… for voice, viola and piano (Schitomirsky 1912). [1] The melody marked con sordino (muted violin or cello) is almost … expressed in his piano part. The piano does not double the melody, but provides a rocking cradle-sway feel through a …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… that will abide by the non-total modality of the melody. The somewhat naïve attempt to avoid clear tonal … designing accompaniments that will not interfere with the melody, but just punctuate it. The rather static, … indeed leaves the space open to the ornamented Iraqi Jewish melody. _____________________________________ [1] Perhaps …
“Die alte Kasche” (Volkslied) – The Old Question (Folksong)
… with the p of the rest of the song. The unaccompanied melody in bars 12-13 allows the soloist freedom to express … the bass line creating a sharp dissonance with the G in the melody. Further in the same bar, the G major chord is … bar 14 – the A flat in the bass against a B natural in the melody and a G flat in the piano’s right hand. Parallel to …
A Nigun on a soff (chassidisch) – A Tune without Ending
… time and space collapse into each other. Incidentally, the melody of Nigun on a Soff was also the basis for a woodwind … somber and tense – klagend (lamenting) as indicated in the melody’s part. Transposing Schitomirsky’s F minor melody a fourth higher was probably due to instrumental …
Chassidisches Lied – Hasidic Song
… This Hassidic style melody depicts an assertive character in sharp contrast to … they grow from a necessity to relive and diversify the main melody. ---- We may say that the Chassidic nigun has no … on octaves, creating an open sound foundation to the melody marked forte . Nevertheless, on the third repetition …