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Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… ). An additional theme, found in the recording’s fourth verse, is the power dynamics between urban and rural Jewish …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… ways in which Jewish repertoires were constructed by diverse agents in the modern period. One of the recordings of …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… of the mode. A shift of tonal center at the end of each verse in the High Holiday melodies, however, mirrors the … end of a text-phrase. The disjunctive te’amim divide each verse once, then again, and again—with up to four levels, depending on the length and complexity of the verse (Dresher 1994, 2013; Jacobson 2002 and 2013; Kogut …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… … The piyyut Shofet kol ha’aretz (‘Judge of all the Universe’) is a centerpiece of the morning service for Rosh … the Selihot for Yotzer of Yom Kippur with interpolations of verses in between each of the stanzas of our poem. More … is composed of two motifs which subdivide the long poetic verse of thirteen or more syllables. Avenary is able to …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… the Love Tonight” from The Lion King (at the end of the verse, on the words “Just to be with you”). From a semiotic …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… a rule, through the ages the Haggadah was performed with diverse techniques of recitation and learning tunes, fitting … The score reveals that Abileah, who was a well-versed synagogue composer and pianist, was inspired by the … Sephardic and Oriental Jewries therefore applied diverse sonic patterns traditionally associated with Jewish …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… the havdalah blessings it is customary to add a sequence of verses, and to occasionally add free and impromptu baqqashot … in prayer books and piyyut collections published in many diverse locations and periods. Among the early printings that … , or “girdle poem”), where each strophe is comprised of two verses and each verse is divided into two short units. In …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… consists of an opening refrain and five stanzas of four verses, with the rhyme scheme AAAX, BBBX, CCCX, etc. The … issues with water), the poet scolds Moshe. In the last verse, the poet expresses the malicious hope that the host …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… city where another Jewish school, the Alliance Israélite Universelle, once stood.” 2 Despite a strong resurgence of … second scale degree in the descent to tonic at the end of verse B, which in Saltiel’s version provides a flavor of …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… processes. Recently, however, ethnomusicology has reversed much of this conventional thought. Man is gifted not …