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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 … version in 1882 that apparently ignored the strophic structure of the poem and provided instead a …
Cross-Repertoire Motifs in Liturgical Music of the Ashkenazi Tradition: An Initial Lay of the Land
… music … Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi liturgy … 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 …
Yonatan Malin
… of Colorado Boulder College of Music. His research explores musical structure and meaning a wide variety of genres including …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… Library, a still largely unexplored treasure of Jewish Musical Americana, includes a magnificent recording of … famous Purim songs. The most prominent one in terms of its structure and length is a unique cantorial rendition of 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 … with te’amim and translation The basic phrasing and structure of this verse is readily apparent: it divides in …
Assaf Shelleg
… book unfolds the theological and territorial infrastructures of Hebrew culture while critically reading the … devices constituted composers’ perceptions of Jewish musical traditions as much … and territorial tropes. Shelleg is also a regular musical contributor at Ha’aretz newspaper. … Musicologist …
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 … of the Elbe and Moldau river) (see image no.3). A melodic structure of four phrases, corresponding to the four lines …
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 … melody walks down to the dominant. The first half of the musical section concludes on the second scale degree on a … “ya la la” and is centered on the fifth degree (G). It is structured in a classic ouvert-clos cadential pattern. …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Literary Structure “Eli Eliyahu” is a simple shir ezor (also: … format. It is also possible to see that there is a musical rhyme matching the textual rhyme of each section of … … Iraq … Baghdad … Ottoman … North Africa … Middle East … Musical … Traditions … “Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut …