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8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… After an introductory stanza, the entire song is structured as a narration of the building process, beginning … Lane recorded the song again in 2006 to facilitate its musical transcription. After the interior of this synagogue was removed to Jerusalem, its exterior structure remained in Jewtown Kochi until it suffered a …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is an opportunity to revive his biography in our website. A musical and rabbinical prodigy since his early days, Rabbi … and early 1940s, Buzaglo capitalized on his exceptional musical abilities and focused less on the rabbinate, in … señores,” documented in Tetuan and Gibraltar, a song whose structure and rhyme pattern not unsurprisingly parallels …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… me at all. To the contrary, I would like to hear a few musical things about it. There was nothing to read about … I would indeed like to know what objection my opponents, musically—objectively, have against my work. So please … how do those omissions influence the book’s character and structure? It is the nature of modern scholarship that many …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… experiences, it was widely appreciated for its beauty, musical features, and spiritual power, emerging from … and rhythmic qualities. These two functions—the extramusical as the primary and the aesthetic as the … seeking “meaning by making connections between musical structure and stories” (Malin 2019, 115), providing solid …
El infante cautivo (Carselero i piadoso, Karselero al piadoso, Carcelaro ipiadoso, Karselero ai piadoso, Karselero i piadoso)
… Eastern Sephardi style of Greece and Turkey. The literary structure of the text (see the text below presented … conventions of romance scholarship) is obliterated by the musical structure, a feature noticeable particularly in the … by the additional singing of nonsense syllables to complete musical phrases. - Carcelero y piadoso, ansi el Dio te dé la …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… logic, that they preserved older layers of Jewish musical memory although he did not discount also the … (generically defined as “medieval French chants”). Musically speaking, Minhag Carpentras, as Chants hebraïques … or “rr”, ’ayin (ע) as “h” and fei (פ) as “ph”. The musical structure of this piece is rather unique. Its compositional …
From Destruction to Rebuilding in the Iberian Peninsula
… Yehuda synagogue in Gibraltar, through a study of three musical examples from the community repertoire and the comparison of these examples with other musical sources from the greater Spanish and Portuguese … text, inner subdivisions, rhyming patterns and the overall structure. The musical analysis will compare the …
Eikha yashvah badad (Lamentations 1:1-4 and 5:21)
… read in public according to the masoretic accents. The AAB musical form of the melody reflects the particular division … is a dirge-like tune in a rhythmic style that stresses the structure of the text in a manner that differs from the …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… content of his album. El jiwneh Hagalil answered both the musical and pedagogical requirements of this album. … ( ahava raba ) mode, El jiwneh Hagalil offers a contrasting musical symbol signifying the modern Jewish national rebirth … its diatonic cyclical contour and fundamental rhythmic structure. While Kisselgoff’s transcription quoted in …
50. Bezokhri 'al mishkavi (Çakum Effendi)
… rhythmic cycle of 15/4 (sometimes 16/4) per phrase. The musical structure of the opening stanza is aabA and of the second …