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Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… one, even though the original wordless niggunim are mediated by their adoption to modern Yiddish and Hebrew song …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… the band, a contemporary sensitivity, the song became an immediate hit. Since that initial recording, the song has been …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Esther trope is also interesting because we hear them in immediate succession. Verses from Esther that deal with topics … 6 (A), with 7 (B) as an upper neighbor and 5 (G) as an intermediary pitch. There is no upper tonic in these phrases; the … melodies of Haftarah and High Holiday cantillation, I am immediately aware of the musical links—the focus on scale …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Ashre ha-'Am) of the applicable Scriptural texts which immediately precede it. In the German order of seliḥot, when …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… now relate the power of this day’s holiness). Figure 4. Immediately after the opening gesture, there is another octave … to the affects’ conventions of Western music. Yet immediately afterwards, instead of the dominant (which …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… which include music take place within the circle of the immediate or extended family. The Passover seder (lit. …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
Jubal in the Middle Ages
… Mediaeval treatises on music usually begin with a series of …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… disputed manuscript readings. Nor does Judah Ibn Tibbon's mediaeval Hebrew translation of the Arabic original resolve …