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A Jewish Sufi on the Influence of Music
… of specialized compositions by Jewish authors during the mediaeval period on the subject of music, a fair deal of …
Notes on Bukharan Music in Israel
… who have remarked that 'basic research ... should begin immediately, before the loss of those few who still remember …
Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… sciences. This is probably the earliest mention of music in mediaeval Judeo-Arabic literature dealing with the … philosophers on music' similar to those found elsewhere in mediaeval Judeo-Arabic literature (cf. RISM, B IX2, text no. …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… beings, gods as well as demons and other creatures of intermediate worlds. Besides its function as a conveyer of …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the…
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… which include music take place within the circle of the immediate or extended family. The Passover seder (lit. …
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 …
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 …
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 …