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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… for such a Yiddish song. The modality is reminiscent of Middle-Eastern songs, such as the baladi songs of Syrian and … incorporate elements of Yemenite songs in combination with Eastern European motives – making this a paramount example …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in … of Isaiah 40:27 with etnaḥta at the end and katon in the middle. The brackets show that the level-two katon phrase … musical features of each of the modes. [27] I will take a middle road: I will work with variants, but I will not focus …
Tanya Sermer
… and her Ph.D. in musicology and ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Tanya … the production of space. She plays piano, guitar, oud, and Middle Eastern percussion, and has worked as an instructor, …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… The traditional Ashkenazi learning tune Already in the late Middle Ages Rabbi Jacob ben Moses ha-Levi Moellin … phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes two illuminating … passing tones, 2, 7flat and 7 that hints to a more Eastern European character. …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… for Motzei Shabbat. It is performed by Sephardic and Eastern (Oriental) Jews in a variety of melodies and textual … is sung only among Sephardic Jews and those from the Middle-Eastern communities. It is possible to distinguish … … Jewish … Iraq … Baghdad … Ottoman … North Africa … Middle East … Musical … Traditions … “Eli Eliyahu:” The …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… of a popular polonaise. The song includes a rather amusing middle section without text, either a vocalese or an … by the 18 th century Sephardim sang Kikhlot yeini , at least in Italy and perhaps even in Baghdad, on Purim. The …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… other Sephardic traditions in the greater Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern world, became blended to a degree with local …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… 223, 263–267, 318–319; Goldschmidt 1965b, 9), while at least one example utilizes monorhyme. [10] Still, the … which was in practice in his days, originated in the Middle Ages: “the tune was customary in the fourteenth … the latter, Levi agrees that the melody originates in the Middle Ages, and he mentions the possibility of its being …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… the most prominent practitioners and disseminators of Near Eastern urban music, and had also laid the foundation for … the country, as well as various ensembles dedicated to Middle Eastern fusions such as Bustan Abraham (see Brinner 2009 …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… the largest non-European record company active in the Middle East during the phonograph era; [1] from here onwards, I … from the Nahda period and/or the liturgical practices of Middle Eastern Jews. While everyone from the Jewish side was …