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Adon Olam
… some communities Adon Olam is sung antiphonally between the Hazzan and the congregation, while in others it is performed …
Aḥot qetanah
… sung on Rosh Hashanah. It was composed by Abraham Hazzan Gerondi, a prolific writer of devotional poems who …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… music , p. 191. In reference to this term among Ashkenazic hazzanim, see: Avenary, The musical vocabulatory of the … , side 2, band 2; for the use of volakh by Ashkenazic hazzanim see Avenary, ibid, p. 195. [5] For examples see …
Meshoyrer
… Pl. Meshoyrerim. Apprentice to the Hazzan, or Synagogue choirboy. … Meshoyrer …
Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
… A term used by Hassidim and East European hazzanim; it literally means 'Movement.' An ambiguous term, … Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim . … 702 … Chabad … Hazzan, Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanim, Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors – …
Kol Nidrei
… Kol Nidrei is recited as a call and response between the Hazzan and the congregation, while the Ashkenazi melody … declamation and highly melismatic coloraturas sung by the hazzan alone. … Kol Nidrei …
Ba'al Tefillah
… Lit. 'master of prayer'. Generally used in contrast to 'Hazzan' to designate a person who leads the prayers in a …
Amidah
… silently, and then repeated aloud by the prayer leader or hazzan. This repetition is called Hazarat ha-shatz and was …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… bears the unmistakable stamp of the Ashkenazi style (hazzanut). It is not only the expressivity and the strong …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… arrived to Amsterdam where he was invited to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the flourishing Portuguese Jewish …