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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Hebrew text is a free adaptation from the Lithuanian. The melodies are almost identical in the first section, while … harmonic minor). Nathan Shahar (1989, 220), having encoded melodies of Hebrew songs by their scale degrees in relation … against reading plagal harmonic minor is found in those melodies that actually appear in two forms—Aeolian and …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… “Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardic Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av.” There it was shown … קַבֵּץ נִדָּחִים פְּזוּרִים בָּעַמִּים וְגוֹאֵל תָּבִיא Melodies A particular characteristic of all the sung … to the diverse patterns of repetitions of motifs in the melodies of the North African, Spanish-Portuguese and Balkan …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Av and its Geographical Distribution Had Gadya Kedusha Four Melodies for Four Questions Yiddish Folksong (The Music of …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… NLI, Yc 197 … 714 … In his pioneer publication Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition … sources led to a rapid diffusion of Jewish liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial … “Western” melody, i.e. Sulzer’s, is similar to German folk melodies, some documented as early as the fifteenth century …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… forms and/or combined Hebrew sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with … of songs”, whence he challenged them to compare their melodies and maqams with his own compositions (Shelemay … while often rendering Jewish religious hymns sung to the melodies of more recent songs by Farid al-Atrash or Umm …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… However, when compared to the two less-ornamented melodies below, we find that all variants share a common …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… music notation, enabling them to record Jewish liturgical melodies, first on separate music sheets and then in … 1840 and the Holocaust period. A close study of these melodies follows the discussion of verbal references. Verbal … and the ‘Akedah melody. At first glance it seems that both melodies share a general tendency towards the major mode (a …
The Concept of Mode in European Synagogue Chant
… of the Adosem malak mode is based upon a sample of 30 melodies chosen to represent a cross section, i.e., with … … Ashkenazi liturgy … Ashkenazi cantorate … Shteiger … Melodies … Synagogue music … Modes … The Concept of Mode in …
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… period forming part of the Zeitgeist and its forces, the melodies, rhythms and forms that correspond to such …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… savant: it has already been established that cantillation melodies are independent of the metrical symmetry of the … 'empty' and 'full' tones. This is valid for the melodies-of-action (Biblical cantillation which is uttered … because their status is low in comparison with that of the melodies-of-action, which is the highest and the most …