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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 …
Idelsohn’s Scholarly and Literary Publications: An Annotated Bibliography
… of Professor Idelsohn's 'Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies' has elicited articles concerning the man and his …
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… he confronted different local variants of Jewish Sephardi melodies. He confined himself to very few, often no more … been recorded and put at our disposal. For many Sephardi melodies we can unfold a map of variants reaching from … … Sephardi music … Melodic variants … Variants … Folk melodies … Folk music … Persistence and Transformation of a …
The Performance Practice of the Rig-Veda: A Musical Expression of Excited Speech
… of hymns), the Sama-Veda (hymns with notated melodies), the Yajur-Veda (verses and prose formulae, with …