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The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech
… Sama-Veda (hymns with notated melodies), the Yajur-Veda (verses and prose formulae, with or without meaning used …
Le monument juif d'epoque romane de Rouen: Ce que nous enseignent les graffiti
… destination de ce monument a donné lieu à d'intenses controverses. … 23457 … Jewish History … Jewish community … …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… has to gather, sift, and problematize an extremely diverse set of source materials to create a portrait of a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… a rule, through the ages the Haggadah was performed with diverse techniques of recitation and learning tunes, fitting … element. 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 …
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 …
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 …