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The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech
… Nambudiris, a Brahmin sect in the state of Kerala in Southwest India, which may perhaps serve as a starting point for …

Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… richness are the qinot of the Sephardi communities of the Western Hemisphere. Perhaps the intense attachment of the … four fasts.” … 9415 … Sephardi … Sephardic Jewish people … Western Sephardi tradition … Sephardi melodies … Ancient … … of Av - Tish'ah BeAv … Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av … …

Ancient Music in the Modern Classroom
… to broaden the horizons of music history to include non-Western and ancient musics was met with eagerness by those who believed that until Western music was seen in the setting of universal history, … 1940: 6). … 23472 … Ancient music … Music history … Non-Western music … Pedagogy … Musicology … Music education … …

Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… we have used the Melograph for the analyses of non-Western music since 1958. As is well known, Israel has …

Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … Edith (Esther) Gerson …

The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… performed by the precentor or Cantor in the communities of Western Asheknaz (the lands near the Rhine and Upper … - Cantors … Hebrew cantillation … Synagogue music … Western Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi … Cantorial Fantasia … The …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… upward arc, which then descends, in conclusion, to its lowest point at the tonic note. Part A of each stanza quickly … melodies of the other versions, in contrast, remain in a Western minor modality. The above sound examples provide …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… for Kol Israel (Israel Radio) in the 1950’s. This is a very Westernized version of the Ottoman melody and is very … Weider, The Formulation of Jewish Liturgy in the East and West. Vol. 1. Jerusalem, Yad Itzhak Ben Zvi, 1998, 114-115. …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… (Hamburg: M. Lessmann, 1933) published an old niggun from West Prussia transmitted to him by K. Lowenstein. Although …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… a feeling of mercy according to the affects’ conventions of Western music. Yet immediately afterwards, instead of the …