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Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… followed the tradition of writing new piyyutim according to models of existing songs, and turned it into a method. As a result, he also used the melodies of these song-models for his piyyutim (a technique that is generally …
Ner Haviv, Ner Na'eh
… redemption, a topic which has maintained relevant in the modern period, especially for compositions for festive …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of Modena contains fragments from an order of Selihot of the … pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock of idiomatic … Of course his terminology is a bit uncomfortable to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical …
Hanukkah Blessings
… in his comprehensive volume Musique religieuse ancienne et moderne en usage dans les Temples Consistoriaux Israélites …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… Talmudic times. Each Jewish community developed a specific mode of Selihot and its own textual compilation. However, …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock of idiomatic …
Hazzan (pl. Hazzanim)
… character. The role of the hazzan today is similar in many modern congregations, though major reforms have been …
Akdamut millin
… one is in a psalmodic style and the other is set to a modern Western melody. … Akdamut millin …
Maqam
… Arabic term often translated as ‘mode’, ‘scale’, or ‘melody.’ … Maqam …