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The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… of a significant but forgotten chapter in synagogue chant. The aspect of cantorial music here considered forms … traditional tunes. The genuine homophony of synagogue chant was challenged by environmental influences such as …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Although this tune also recalls the Ashkenazi learning chant, its metric character and the contour of the melody in … for the Four Questions that challenged the traditional chant. The following case follows naturally this statement. … composed tunes in Israel slowly substituted the traditional chanting of several sections of the Haggadah , the Four …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… its relationship to some features of the Ashkenazi Torah chant. Placing the three sub-types of the “common” Ashkenazi … pentatonics with their reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of Shofet … the closing masoretic accents of the Pentateuch verses as chanted on the High Holidays. The use of a prominent motif …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… since the day of the Renaissance Humanists. [1] The Hebrew chanting depends on the text, and is determined by the … accents) located above and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of … combined. Thus, for instance, one might begin learning to chant with merkha-tipḥa munaḥ-etnaḥta . But one would then …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… like a folksong than an ecclesiastical [read: synagogue] chant, and hence it is inappropriate for liturgical use.” … [28] Joseph Reider, ‘Secular Currents in the Synagogal Chant in America,’ The Jewish Forum (1918), 6-17, quotation … text. [39] See, Reider, Secular Currents in the Synagogal Chant in America . (note 28 above). [40] In …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… of which may seem far removed from the original Passover chant. The following example [referring to the discussed … Rachel Clara. “Songs of the ‘Twelve Numbers’ and the Hebrew Chant of ‘Echod Mi Yodea’.” Journal of American Folklore 62, …
Mazltov (LKT)
… now recites the prayer for the dead, ‘Mercifiul God, etc.,’ chanting it in the accepted mournful tone. The klezmorim …
Volekh (LKT)
… the first dancer attempts to revive with his movements and chants the one who is dead, until they dance together the … Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760) explains that the reason for chanting the Ya’aleh hymn on Yom Kippur Eve to a Walachian …
Doyne (LKT)
… once existed. These go back and forth between cantorial chant, Chassidic tunes and klezmer... there are deeper forms …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… now recites the prayer for the dead, ‘Mercifiul God, etc.,’ chanting it in the accepted mournful tone. The klezmorim …