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Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of Judeo-Spanish songs) and of the peoples of the region: Arabic, Turkish, Greek and Persian tunes. In Najara’s book, and in those of his followers, the …
Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg
… 19th century as part of its attempt to introduce Sephardi tunes into the synagogue services. These documents comprise …
Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle
A collection of life-cycle songs: birth, circumcision, wedding etc., sung in Ladino. All…

The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
… based on a melody which is considered one of the MiSinai Tunes, is typical of this genre and is analyzed in the …

Beitrag zur Legende der Mi-Sinai Melodien
… … Ashkenaz … Melodies … Ashkenazi … Mi-Sinai - MiSinai - Tunes - Melodies - Niggunim … Tunes … Ashkenazi … David Polnauer … Beitrag zur Legende der …

Observations on Practices of Nusach in America
… training of cantors, changes in the function of metrical tunes and in the role of congregational singing. … 101 … 101 …

Tonality and Motivic Interrelationships in the Performance Practice of Nusach
… on the practicum, especially in the use of congregational tunes. The second provides a tonal and structural analysis …

Voices in the sanctuary: Musical Practices of the American Synagogue
… of replacing chant with congregational singing of metrical tunes, doing away with some responsorials, replacing some of …
The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel
A collection of field recordings, mainly klezmer musical pieces, performed in Israel and…

Song and Singers of the Synagogue in the Eighteenth Century
… of the late baroque and rococo styles and composed new tunes in imitation of non-Jewish instrumental genres, to the …