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50. Bezokhri 'al mishkavi (Çakum Effendi)
… are 113 identical to Haim Effendi’s setting. It is a slow, metered melody in makam Uşşak with an interesting rhythmic …
77. Tu sos una rosa (Bosanski Instrumentalni i Pjevački Terzett)
… it here too. The musical style of the song with its waltz meter hints to its origins in the modern Western European …
Tzur mishelo akhlanu
… This most famous zemer is set to a simple melody in ternary meter that evokes the tune of a Dutch or German folksong. …
Halleluya halleli nafshi (Psalm 146)
… formula in two sections with fixed beat, yet with changing meter. This is one of the oldest genres of Sephardi …
Shema' qoli
… rhythm, while the core of the poem is based on a rigid 6/8 meter with a fixed rhythmic pattern, reflecting the quantitative Arab meter of this poem. This melody recalls the ones used for …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… Courtland. Courtland Jews defined themselves against the “zameter”, i.e. the “other” Ashkenazi Jews. See Jacobs, Neil …
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
The library of Gratz College is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish…
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… the first in flowing rhythm, the other two in duple meter accompanied by a tin pan. … With Songs They Respond: …
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… simple and rhythmic, and his drumming emphasizes its duple meter. … With Songs they Respond: the Diwan of the Jews from …
"Im Nin’alu Daltei Nedivim" (Were the gates of the munificent closed)
… by a drum and hand clapping. The first melody is in triple meter, with a variation in the tawshiḥ. The second stanza, …