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Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Session: Ashkenazi traditions: the Synagogue and Beyond, 3.8.09 Chair: Amalia … expressive dance movement can be correlated to a number of musical parameters involving melodic density, rhythmic …
Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC (2009)
… Contemporary Jewish Music: A New Series of the JMRC With the release of … character of its CD releases (Anthology of Music Traditions from Israel) moving into the field of … the music of the Roma while in Europe, Hajdu focused on the musical traditions of the Eastern European Hassidim residing …
A Crossroads of Jewish Music Scholarship: A. Z. Idelsohn and the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development
… The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish Studies Jerusalem Special panel (Plenary of … the first time to bring together many fragments of Jewish musical knowledge into a single, grand English language … with its own consistent (if sometimes obscured) musical tradition. While Idelsohn’s treatise was in one sense a …
Adon Olam
… that this hymn dates back much further to the Babylonian Jewish community. In the Sephardi tradition, an additional two verses are added, and the hymn … someone on their deathbed. There is a wide range of musical settings for this hymn, including melodies from …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… whether with or without text, are considered the core of musical creativity in all hassidic communities. They are … to this term among Ashkenazic hazzanim, see: Avenary, The musical vocabulatory of the Ashkenazic Hazanim , p. 190. [2] … 75-77, no. 2 and p. 78, no. 3; Hajdu-Mazor, The Musical Tradition of Hasidism ,pp. 432-3, ex. 6. … Niggun …
Zemirot
… specific repertories: The first, according to the Sephardic tradition, refers to the preliminary section of psalms and … which are sung during and directly after Sabbath meals. The musical versions are numerous and heterogeneous reflecting a … and leaned heavily on Liturgical modes and formulae. 2. Non-Jewish folk tunes served as the music for the Zemirot texts; …
Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
… hard to define. In most cases, the term refers to a short musical unit, fragment, or snippet, with characteristics that are difficult to define by known musical terms. Generally, but not always, it is to be … , and Nusah . [1] Information about Tenu'a through oral traditions relates to only five dynasties: Vishnits, Koson, …
Mitsve Tants
… to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish musar literature and minhagim books of the 17th and … two patterns to the Hassidic Mitsve Tants. In the Diaspora tradition, it is a Badhan who invites the guests to dance … the JMRC Cd- The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim. Musical Transcription … Performers: Vizhnitz Choir, …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … embedded in the Sephardi liturgical and paraliturgical tradition, and have remained a main trait to this day. …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Italy, Roman Tradition, recorded in 1959 … Hungary, Pressburg … development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock …