Steiger
A term in use in the European Jewish musical tradition to refer to the different modal types of Nusahei Hatefilah.
Nusah Hatefilah is the accepted ritual of liturgical singing that is based on structural elements: the combination of motifs that are built from melodic formulas within a scale…
Steiger Ahava Rabah
The Ahava Rabah Steiger is also known as Freygish. When the prayer includes a range of more than an octave, the sixth step under the Finalis is always augmented. This steiger includes characteristic motifs in the phrygian scale with a major third, so we get an augmented second between the second…
Taksim (LKT)
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Tango (LKT)
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Tants (Alter yidisher) (LKT)
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Tants nign (LKT)
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Tekhies hameysim-tants (LKT)
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Tenoim (LKT)
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Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
A term used by Hassidim and East European hazzanim; it literally means 'Movement.' An ambiguous term, found in contemporary Hasssidic written and oral sources, and may have several, sometimes contradictory, meanings, that even the Hassidim themselves find hard to define. In most cases, the term…
Terkish (LKT)
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The Israeli Mediterranean Style
*The following is a summary of an article by Ronit Seter, to read the full article.
The term Mediterranean style, as it has been used in Israel, originally referred to selected versions of European Mediterranean styles in art music that Jewish composers—the founders of Israeli music, among them the…
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
This article shows the crystallization of the prayer and singing style known as “Jerusalem-Sephardic,” which originated among the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Ottoman Empire during the 16th to 20th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences.
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