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The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… of other-worldliness is greatly enhanced by the ancient chants and melodies that come from under the prayer shawls … Jewish communities from Yemen to Lithuania cherish special chants for the ritual and they are all worthy of research. … Ashkenazi traditions have developed the richest variety of chants, melodies and compositions for the PB. … Ashkenazi …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… 'adot hamizrah , namely the oral transmission of synagogue chant. However, starting in the 1830s and 1840s, there …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… most extensive and detailed transcription of the synagogue chant of the South German Jews. On this chant tradition Maier Levi clearly was an outstanding authority. In addition to the chants of the ḥazzan, the compendium frequently describes …
A la recherche du Tonus Peregrinus dans la tradition musicale juive
… la première fois l'attention sur la parenté entre certains chants juifs de la Paque et des chants du répertoire grégorien, notamment la mélodie du Tonus Peregrinus. Il confronta cette mélodie avec deux chants de Pâque, l'un de tradition sefarade orientale, …
La musique juive dans l’Espagne médiévale
… tant de siècles, il n’est pas diiffcile d'imaginer que le chant traditionnel des Juifs péninsulaires s'appropria et …
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 …