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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… of early-twentieth century Zionist music. The very composition of the song includes signifiers that could … in the twentieth century. This is not a book of original compositions – most of the songs in it are listed as “folk … message does not solve any of the questions regarding the composition of the melody itself, its dating, or the …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… is put (theoretical, historical, the acquisition of compositional craft, aid in preparing a performance), its …
Assaf Shelleg
… romanticist nationalism amid the dissemination of modernist compositional devices and against the backdrop of contiguous … Stains discloses how importations of modernist compositional devices constituted composers’ perceptions of …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important role in dramatically … the liberal Jewish movements of North America. Friedman’s compositional career began in the 1960s, developing out of … more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be accompanied by simple …
The Musical Passage in Ibn Ezra's "Book of the Garden"
… 9602 … Moses Ibn Ezra … Poems … Music … Music theory … Compositions … Medieval … Middle Ages … Music history … The …
La place traditionnelle du melisme dans la cantillation
… 23451 … Melisma … Composition … Hebrew cantillation … Musical composition … Music … La place traditionnelle du melisme …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… same clever modification of the original melody. The modern compositional technique and the fact that no such feature … Israel: Israeli Traditional Cantorial Anthology; with Compositions of Salomon Rawitz and Others , vol. 2. Tel …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… request several of these additional Portuguese liturgical compositions, drawn from one of the richest manuscript … used to insert at the opening of the public prayer. These compositions in their new arrangements expand the horizons …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, often tended to structure new compositions of (para)liturgical hymns (known as piyyutim … he, who was blind and relied on a scribe to record his compositions, is said to have produced and revived over four … them to compare their melodies and maqams with his own compositions (Shelemay 1998, 30-32). Even his blindness is …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… periods corresponds to the poetic stanza.” This compositional model originated in Al-Andalus, and stems from … Parisian composer and cantor Samuel Naumbourg. The original composition appeared in the third volume of Naumbourg’s … is arranged as a canon for four voices. A footnote to this composition states that “the motif of this canon [i.e. the …