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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… first measure (and for the following measures with the same rhythm) is divided into eight individual sixteenth notes … a recording by the Klezmatics in 1990 on their album “Rhythm and Jews.” At once providing the listener a feeling …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… to sing the last stanzas of this piyyut with a variety of rhythmic melodies, a tradition that was maintained in the …
Yonatan Malin
… and Jewish liturgical music. His book Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied was published in 2010 by …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… structure of two phrases which alternate in an ABAB form. Rhythmically, the song is in duple meter and it mostly has simple and symmetrical rhythmic structures, which include quarter notes, pairs of …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… shnot alpayim’ in order to better adjust the text to the rhythmic pattern of the melody. Another source credits …
Karev Yom
… first stanza, not to the last one (‘Karev yom’) and it is a rhythmical rendition of the traditional Ashkenazi nussah for … a non-Hassidic Ashkenazi tradition that frowns upon rhythmic melodies of the kind of the “common” ‘Karev yom’? …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… the second one is simpler in regards to contour as well as rhythm. Except for the leap of a fourth in the opening … progression. Additionally, except for the cadences, the rhythm of the melodies progresses in eighth notes. The … has a simple melodic structure in a major key with a steady rhythm progression of eighth notes, the second version’s …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… are based on a solo mawal , a musical improvisation in free rhythm, as expressed through the soloist’s personal …
Vals (LKT)
… quadrille, the waltz words were sung which went with the rhythms... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite …
Tsepler-tants (LKT)
… springs up in the dance, under the influence of the rhythmic dance-melody? The answer is -- a spontaneous …