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Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
Study and commentaries: Rivka Havassy and Edwin Seroussi
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14. El nacimiento y la vocación de Abraham (CES)
… the earliest documentation of “La mujer de Terah” with this metered melody. Its opening stanza connects the text to the …
47. Ten piadad amoroso (Çakum Effendi)
… is clearly a close paraphrase of the Turkish lines whose meter, failatün failatün failatün failün, is also clear …
50. Bezokhri 'al mishkavi (Çakum Effendi)
… are 113 identical to Haim Effendi’s setting. It is a slow, metered melody in makam Uşşak with an interesting rhythmic …
77. Tu sos una rosa (Bosanski Instrumentalni i Pjevački Terzett)
… it here too. The musical style of the song with its waltz meter hints to its origins in the modern Western European …
Zoock (Volkstanz) – Zhok (Folk dance)
… 216) This Moldavian and Rumanian dance genre in fast triple meter appeared mainly as a wedding march during street … The Zoock carried traits similar to the tripled meter Moldavian Hora mare (extended hora) with emphasis on … [1] For comparisons between the different triple-metered klezmer tunes: zhok , gas nigun, hora mare see, …
Tzur mishelo akhlanu
… This most famous zemer is set to a simple melody in ternary meter that evokes the tune of a Dutch or German folksong. …
Halleluya halleli nafshi (Psalm 146)
… formula in two sections with fixed beat, yet with changing meter. This is one of the oldest genres of Sephardi …
Shema' qoli
… rhythm, while the core of the poem is based on a rigid 6/8 meter with a fixed rhythmic pattern, reflecting the quantitative Arab meter of this poem. This melody recalls the ones used for …