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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 … that unite all the variants of the three sub-types of the “common” melody into one type. He also points … melody of Shofet kol ha’aretz , with its recognizable AABA melodic pattern in which phrase B ascends to the upper …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… (phonology), the phrasing of the text (prosody), and the melodic motif for each word. Some of the Tiberian te’amim … chant at any level that is comfortable for their voice. The type of scale and scale degree will be more important for … and in a softer voice. Other differences have to do with melodic features, which I will outline below. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… that 'may be distinguished as having an original Jewish melodic line, not to be found in other folk song' (1932: … ethnic backgrounds a synthetic fusion of the stereotyped Jewish “East” and “West,” which seems to collapse the …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… Musically, each textual line is accompanied by a melodic phrase. This pattern creates a binary musical … of the words of the song by the listeners/participants as a type of “echo” which creates 'a communal space in which …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… of the melody of Hatikvah , i.e. the attribution of the melodic adaptation to Samuel Cohen following his testimony, … is therefore not original to this song but a variant of a melodic pattern circulating in Rumania/Moldavia. [12] … the first thorough analysis of the cross-cultural melody-type to which Hatikvah belongs. In the spirit of …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… different. While the first version of the song has a simple melodic structure in a major key with a steady rhythm … G and F#. Beregovski wrote that this section and “its melodic formulation create the impression that we are really … dealing with someone who has suffered a burglary. […] The melodic line is weeping, imploring” (Beregovski, 563). This …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… in 3/4. The second melody differs both metrically and melodically from the first. It was published and arranged …
Skotshne/Skochne
… character, skocnes were almost the same as frejlaxs , and melodically they have no non-Jewish traits. In Ukrainian we … tell us, the skocna among Jews was not a separate dance-type. Usually they called a tune skocna if it was a frejlaxs … was used by some klezmorim to indicate freylekhs -type melodies which were technically more demanding.” Rubin …
Volekh (LKT)
… Hadju 1971, p. 83 . (Musical notation included). “A type of vocal niggunim named after Walachia, a region of … harmonic changes usually quite obvious, following standard melodic modes. In America, the doina is usually part of a …
Taksim (LKT)
… their seventies to nineties still remember when taksims (a type of free improvised form which has a great deal of scale … like doinas, but note quite. They have certain kinds of melodic phrases that are not typical of doina. No doubt that … Phillips 1996b, pp. 182-83 . “The taksim was an older type of improvisation among klezmorim , which was gradually …