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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… properly, the melody of each line unfolds without fixed meter, in an elastic structure capable of accommodating a … it was used for all the poems with the same content and meter.” (Idelsohn 1929, 170). Figure 3: “Jesu, welche Qual … phrases (B, D) are indicated as Chor (choir). Tonality and Meter D, no fixed meter Remarks Only the melody for the …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… focused especially on taqasim —the improvisational non-metered solo section which opens a composed piece or bridges …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… of instrumental accompaniment within the stylistic parameters of late Baroque and Galant style could be relatively …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… song.” Melody emerges in this case from the poetic form and meter of the text. In his words, “the symmetrical bars are … the constant numbers of syllables adhered to in a regular meter and the set of well-balanced periods corresponds to … each line in a different rhyme. Defining the poetical meter of “She’eh ne’esar” is complicated. Avenary claimed …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in this family of songs are in the catalectic trochaic heptameter. The tune Melngailis transcribed belongs to a family …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… focused especially on takasim —the improvisational non-metered solo section which opens a composed piece or bridges …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… his), and diverse new populations are reinventing the parameters and dynamics of Yiddish music …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… creates a sonic tapestry that moves between fast non-metered mumbling on a single recitation tone to clear-cut florid melodies with fixed meter with various permutations of melodic and rhythmic … of a weekly evening prayer shows some analytical parameters designed to interpret the structure and aesthetics of …