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Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
… hard to define. In most cases, the term refers to a short musical unit, fragment, or snippet, with characteristics that are difficult to define by known musical terms. Generally, but not always, it is to be …
Kol Nidrei
… from the beginning of the 8th century C.E. The text and musical setting varies within in the different rites; for …
Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… in various communities). Hassidic dance tunes have defined musical characteristics such as duple meter and fast tempi …
Kolomeyke (LKT)
… or refer to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … of this unit... This structure is typical of several musical categories of the gentile folk environment in which … translated as Howling Wind.” Phillips 1996a, p. 104. ( Musical notation and recording references included). “'Do …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … required his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of … Turkish or Arabic maqamat and melodies of the surrounding musical cultures became embedded in the Sephardi liturgical …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … this style. The melody itself is not based on a universal musical language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly … this topical motif of the High Holidays forms a musical link between the festival season and the Shofet …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Images: Musical Transcription Transcription done by Abraham Zvi … Hebrew Song, published in 1922, and is dedicated to the musical traditions of the Persian, Bukharian and Daghestani …
Prayer for the state
… prayer posed a dilemma for synagogue cantors regarding its musical performance. Since the Eastern Ashkenazi cantorial … on the basis of a sui generis combination of Ashkenazi musical patterns that has no precise parallel in the traditional repertoire. Since no official musical version was ever sanctioned, an oral tradition …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… was inspired by several recent inquiries regarding the musical manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte. The staff of … picture regarding this interesting set of early Hebrew musical manuscripts. In 1918, a fragment containing medieval musical notation was discovered in the Cairo Genizah. The …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… are extracted from a presentation titled “Islands of Musical Memory: Lucena (Spain, 11th century)-Djerba and … by Edwin Seroussi, read at the 18th ICTM Colloquium “Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas” held at … editions. This is therefore a particular poetical and musical tradition of medieval Andalusian origins showing a …