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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… many of the characteristics of other known “Mt. Meron tunes,” as they became called following the studies of this …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… with diverse techniques of recitation and learning tunes, fitting the character of the texts included in this … modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric tunes (such as Hassidic melodies) took over texts of the … traditional unmetered study or prayer formulae. A canon of tunes developed, first through the printing of musical …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and Morocco. Additionally, the piyyut has been set to new tunes by contemporary Israeli composers. The Ottoman/Iraqi …
Arba Otiyot
This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb.…
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
Some scientific enterprises, like good wine, mature over a long period of time. The…
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… and countered the usual manner of improvising traditional tunes. The genuine homophony of synagogue chant … ornamentation. Apart from entirely new inventions and tunes of long standing, two ways of realizing and …
Le Niggûn Merôn
… … Niggunim … Hasidic niggunim … Instrumental music … Dance Tunes … Le Niggûn Merôn … Andre Hajdu …
The Musical Realization of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
… that although they have a repertory of six different tunes according to which these public recitations are performed, the tunes are unified in that their structure depends on the …
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… but, nevertheless, ventured upon the comparison of tunes influenced by different music cultures. Idelsohn did … two generations ago. A considerable number of tunes with many variant versions has been recorded and put …
Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes
… It is a well-known fact that orally transmitted (folk) tunes exist in many variants, which differ from each other … … Melodic variants … Folk music … Folk songs … Folk tunes … Folklore … Oral tradition … Numerical Representation of Variants of Orally Transmitted Tunes … Eric Werner …