… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15]  The only implicit written records … returned to the subject in the seventh volume of Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz , dedicated to the synagogue …  (when the gates of mercy open), which is sung in oriental Jewish communities during Rosh Hashanah services …

… Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual … from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/   Literary … the metric structure. [7] Abraham Z. Idelsohn, Thesaurus of Oriental Hebrew Melodies (Berlin; Jerusalem: B. Harz, …