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Tzur mishelo akhlanu
… after Meals). This most famous zemer is set to a simple melody in ternary meter that evokes the tune of a Dutch or German folksong. The strained setting of the text to the melody discloses the foreign origin of the melody. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung …
Kol beru’e ma’ala umata
… transmitted this tune to Leon Palache in Amsterdam. This melody may belong to the Italian stratum of the Amsterdam …
Yigdal elohim hay
… dance rhythm and the overt-cl os cuadential pattern, this melody recalls German-Dutch folk tunes that are associated …
Im tashiv
… nussah very similar to the Moroccan version. Haftarah melody. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung …
Im tashiv (Qiddush shel Shabbat)
… first section (Isaiah 58:13-14) is chanted according to the melody of the Haftarah , the additional Biblical readings … books of the Prophets) of the Sabbath Morning service. The melody changes to a different, declarative style on the …
Az yashir Moshe (Song of the Sea; Exodus 15) (2 versions)
… special melodies on Sabbaths and Festivals. The present melody is the oldest and better documented one in the … East and West. The myth that this is the very same melody that Moses sang appears in the writings of hazzan David Aaron de Sola, who transcribed this melody in the mid-19th century (see Aguilar-De Sola 1857 , …
Yitgadal ve-yitqadash
… melodies depending on the liturgical occasion. This simple melody is recited by the hazzan on regular Friday night …
Naqdishakh ve-na'aritzakh
… to compose embellished melodies for this text. This melody of with its Baroque features is from Amsterdam and is …
Yevarekhekha
… accompaniment). According to him, this is an old Portuguese melody from New York City and it differs from the standard …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… with no. 9 above). Each verse is set to a simple syllabic melody that consists of two main motifs, expanded or … here. By the beginning of the 20th century however, this melody was performed in Amsterdam by the choir. The last … when as a child he sang in the choir in Amsterdam. The same melody was also sung at the Spanish-Portuguese synagogue in …