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My Path to Jewish Music
… physiognomy: a certain curve of soulful emotion, melodic structure, harmonic connection, and rhythmic design. This … characteristics within the melodic curve, rhythm, and structure of the folk song, then it will also be possible to … drive to master the raw material and bring it into a structured, elevated composition. In the last century, …
Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… we drove out to the mausoleum of Shah Reza – a magnificent structure made of beautiful marble – and laid a wreath. On …
A Fine Reciprocity
… vector: lover/beloved ⇆ beloved/lover. The chiasmic structure of the line in Halevi’s poem bears an uncanny … comes to meet the other. Palindromes and other chiastic structures share the property of ending where they began. … approved” (Berlin 2023, 114). This aspect of the chiasmic structure is exactly analogous to the way musical chiasmus …
NigunimBimBom
… are explicitly encoded and expressed digitally. This structure allows patterns of transmission, transformation, … queries. Conceived as a long-term, iterative scholarly infrastructure, NigunimBimBom combines public participation with …
Mashiah vegam Eliyah (Turino)
… Italian rite in Siena, on the Eve of Simhat Torah. The structure of this festive melody shows similarities with the …
Had Gadya: Musical Traditions
… reinterpreted while preserving its recognizable narrative structure. The musical examples presented here illustrate …
Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… fold – at least – firstly I am interested in the musical structure (arrangement) of the ta’amim independent from any … scales, etc. That is, I am interested in the basic musical structure of cantillation more that the particular modes … seems to me that the only way to become familiar with this structure is to in fact learn the practices of several …
6. Ṣwa`ǝkuka
… The prayer ends by recalling some of God’s attributes. The structure of this unmeasured piece follows the hemiola …
23. Mitsve-Tants at a Jerusalem Hasidic Wedding
… in many Hasidic communities. It is bipartite in structure. The first part is almost identical with the …
17. "Varshever Marsh"- Dance Niggun
… and boys on the " parentches " (benches placed in a stepped structure around the table during the Tish ) danced where …
7. Yearning niggun
… vol. 2, nos. 203- 204; ibid ., vol. 3, nos. 302-310). The structure of the niggun is A-B-C-D-C. The first two sections …
4. "Berah Dodi 'Ad She-Tehpaz"
… with him. The present niggun has the classical Hasidic structure A-B-C-B, but the rhythmical and modal structures are unusual. While sections A and B are based on … masks the triple time of the waltz even further. The modal structure is also untypical of the more common Hasidic …