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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… circumstances in which Imber’s poem was shaped and the musical contrafactum (adaption of a preexisting melody to a … orally. It underwent, in the process of its reception and musical performances, changes and adaptations. The printed … Abraham Zvi Idelsohn carried the first thorough analysis of the cross-cultural melody-type to which Hatikvah …
Cross-Repertoire Motifs in Liturgical Music of the Ashkenazi Tradition: An Initial Lay of the Land
… … Nusah … nusach … Modes … mode … System … fuzzy … Theory … Analysis … Jewish … Jewish music … Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi … motif … Motifs … Structure … Chazzan … Chazzanut … Hazzan … Musical structure … Repertoire … Synagogue … Synagogue music …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… two stanzas) with each line consisting of two hemistiches. Musically, each textual line is accompanied by a melodic phrase. This pattern creates a binary musical structure of two phrases which alternate in an ABAB … while the rural woman symbolizes his fantasies. Avraham's analysis contradicts aspects of the female protest embedded …
Yonatan Malin
… of Colorado Boulder College of Music. His research explores musical structure and meaning a wide variety of genres … Oxford University Press. He has published articles in Music Analysis and Music Theory Spectrum, and a chapter in the …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern … 3; Kogut 1994, 13; Portnoy and Wolff 2001, 6). The present analysis opens the musical “flavor” or “taste” of the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… sung preceding and during the High Holidays. Ashkenazi musical traditions of Shofet kol ha'aretz Our previous … development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … profiled Jewish prayer mode”) are freely deployed in his analysis. Sephardic musical traditions of Shofet kol …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… are expressed in Friedman’s composition. The following musical analysis of “Shema’ Koleinu” is based on the score in C … melody walks down to the dominant. The first half of the musical section concludes on the second scale degree on a …
Avi Bar-Eitan
… in vocal and instrumental music of Ashkenaz and Sepharad; musical analysis of Israeli song; and the musical style of Yair Rosenblum. Dr. Bar-Eitan teaches the …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in Saloniki consisted of these … through a series of melismas, down to the tonal center. Analysis of Performances There are a number of commercial …
Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… the Melograph in operation, the problems raised by the new musical material it provides, and the new methods of … as we shall discuss, the data obtained suggest new modes of analysis and concept. In Jerusalem, we have used the …