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Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… singers. The petihot are not piyyutim; they are selected verses from the Book of Psalms, other books of the Bible, or … of every piyyut; in the petihot, the maqam in which each verse or group of verses is performed is indicated next to the text. In the …
Im nin'alu
… manner, as follows: the soloist sings the first verse, and the choir the second, the soloist sings the second verse and the choir the third. At the end of the song the … and a coda-like passage, and then repeat the last two verses at a faster tempo, followed by the blessing Vekulkhem …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… is composed of two motifs which subdivide the long poetic verse of thirteen or more syllables. Avenary is able to … used for the closing masoretic accents of the Pentateuch verses as chanted on the High Holidays. The use of a … versions can be interpreted in two ways. First, the last verse of each stanza is always a quotation from the bible, …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… followers. This popular song consists of quatrains of short verses with the rhyme pattern aaax, bbbx, cccx, etc. (known as the zejel pattern). The “x” verses consist of short biblical quotations all rhyming on “anu” and thus recalling the opening verses “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu / barukh asher bahar banu” …
Prayer for the state
… the first part is more lyrical and includes parallel verses while the second part tends more to prose. For more …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… by Isaiah 60:1 (lines 9-11), and a quotation of the verse from Isaiah in full (lines 12-13). The 'Eulogy of Moses' and the epilogue are neumated, and the verse from Isaiah is text-only. Adler's transcription …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… and Minhah of Yom Kippur. The opening unit consists of four verses and the stanzas of six verses; each verse consists of three sections of three, three and six …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… 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 … used for the closing masoretic accents of the Pentateuch verses as chanted on the High Holidays. The use of a …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… in maqam Hijaz. It is simple, catchy and repeats with every verse without further development, except for the small … text by Sh. Shalom reveals the musical abyss separating diverse Jewish sectors cohabiting in very close proximity in …
Cantar de las Flores
… 'El Hai Sur Olamim.'. The text is structured in eight verses’ stanzas with a repeated two verses’ refrain. The stanzas have a common rhyme in verses 2, 4, 6, and 7 and the last verse always rhyming with …