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Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… that cantillation melodies are independent of the metrical symmetry of the text. One may sing to the same … movements, or for practical resp. useful purposes). For the metrical poems, however, which are verbose and …

Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… the presence of genius; in a sense, copying was diametrically opposed to art. According to this notion, …

To Please Both the Ear and the Eye: Moses Mendelssohn, Equal Temperament and the Delian Problem
… der Musik (Part 2, pp. 95-109) an essay giving a geometrical construction for equal-tempered division of the …

The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… figures in contemporary taste; it is composed of symmetrical phrases in strict time. The other genre of …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… the song is in duple meter and it mostly has simple and symmetrical rhythmic structures, which include quarter notes, …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… meter and Idelsohn’s in 3/4. The second melody differs both metrically and melodically from the first. It was published …

Sirba
… pattern was alien to Ashkenazic dance, which preferred symmetrical patterns....the [was also] rhythmically …

Mazltov (LKT)
… notation and recording references included). “Non-metrical genres included wedding ritual tunes such as …

Doyne (LKT)
… Recording references included). “The Doina / A rhapsodic, ametrical fantasy, often improvised, which served as a …

Opfirn di mekhutonim (LKT)
… 1996b, pp. 56-57 . ( Recording references included). “Non-metrical genres included wedding ritual tunes such as …