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Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… may assume, at a chosen moment, the suggestive force of sound instruments and may join the singing in some sort of sound combination. The singer may also accompany himself on … as does the band-man, again producing some simultaneous sounds of different pitch and tone colour and that is all …
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… or unknown - by persons, not by the written word or notated sound; for the period with which we are concerned did not …
Jubal in the Middle Ages
… inventors of music. Pythagoras, the first to have defined sound and sound relations in numerical proportions, represents the …
Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… ruah to the acoustical foundations of the production of sounds by musical instruments, the author calls the art of …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… our irony in watching those flickering images and sporadic sounds. I’ll concentrate on two types of condensed cultural …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… of the ancient as well as the modern world. Musical sounds — whether created by human voice or instruments — … … Musical instruments … Ancient Instruments … Near East … Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the …
The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
… that originally it was a stringed instrument whose sound box could have been used as a drummable resonator as …
The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… weak evidence, largely the descriptions of the instrument’s sound as “thunder” (Galpin 1937: 6–7). Galpin’s view has …
Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land
… Practices … Cultural heritage … Mediterranean culture … Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… search for recordings of ‘Akedah piyyutim at the National Sound Archives (NSA) at the National Library of Israel in … for the minor confessional ’ Ashamnu, Bagadnu , which today sounds like a tune in the major mode (ex. 17a), we arrive at … idiom of this liturgy at large. The ‘Akedah melody may sound joyful today, but in the past it was perceived as sad …