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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… (East of the Elbe and Moldau river) (see image no.3). A melodic structure of four phrases, corresponding to the four lines … melody of Shofet kol ha’aretz , with its recognizable AABA melodic pattern in which phrase B ascends to the upper …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… ending on a different cadence. The structural notes and the melodic progressions of the song reveal the following … C-B-A-G, from there leaping back up to the tonic. This melodic leap is compensated for in the second half of the … “ya la la” and is centered on the fifth degree (G). It is structured in a classic ouvert-clos cadential pattern. …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Literary Structure “Eli Eliyahu” is a simple shir ezor (also: … It is possible to distinguish between two branches of melodic traditions associated with this piyyut : the … (D) or the tonic (A) in the other versions. The chromatic melodic movement in the stanzas is similar to that of “Ein …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… strophic in form, with a varying but definite textual structure. According to Weich-Shahak, the majority of coplas … the B portion is repeated, creating a musical form of ABB. Melodic Outline The overall melodic structure, primarily in minor mode, consists of an …
The “Proclamation Style” in Hebrew Music
… … Hebrew Music … Hebrew Melody … Proclamation … Melody … Melodic structure … Jewish musical tradition … Jewish music … The …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… as Niggun ‘Akedah An inseparable part of the stanzaic structure of the ‘Akedah piyyutim is their designated … we regard the Niggun ‘Akedah as a non-metrical flexible melodic formula which could be adapted to a varying … of the following prayer. In some cases, the transitional melodic line is developed into a bravura on high notes. The …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… of common textual and contextual traits, and in some cases melodic commonalities, unite the sources examined in this … on Mount Sinai. The textual form consists of eight stanzas structured in estrofas zejelescas , a strophic form with a … musical phrases of relatively equal length, with similar melodic contour and cadential patterns. Your browser does …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… [3] Moreover, synagogue cantors, ḥazzanim, often tended to structure new compositions of (para)liturgical hymns (known … such call and response style is also typical to the structure of a dawr (see Shannon 2006, 135). Eventually, … structure of “ Yom Yom Odeh ”, its complex modal and melodic style, Tabbach’s Arabic sounding Hebrew …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… This is “a pattern of rhythmic bars and a symmetric structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common European … its melismatic and recitative character, a looser beat. The melodic movement of B has two parts, the first of which … no. 66). Though similar in its modal minor setting and melodic contour to Sulzer’s, Wodak’s version is rhythmically …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… the other three verses, even though its opening and overall structure and content patently belongs to the same class. … at a common source: flexible beat; four-phrase structure; melodic contour ascending to the fifth degree on “hashivenu” … Rossi’s possible allegiance to a Christian source. The melodic and contrapuntal qualities of the opening closely …