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Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
… Lopes Cardozo has an unusually flexible rhythm, with four musical phrases in the AABC pattern, after which the refrain …
Im tashiv (Qiddush shel Shabbat)
… commandment (Exodus 20:11) and this serves as a textual and musical transition to the major mode in which the …
Naqdishakh ve-na'aritzakh
… qeddushah is another liturgical text that receives special musical treatment in the Spanish-Portuguese tradition. …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… Amsterdam by the choir. The last verse receives a special musical treatment, a sort of cadential pattern that leads to …
Shema' qoli
… the ancient pedigree of some items in the High Holiday musical repertoire of the Western Sephardi liturgy (compare …
Mi hakham ve-yishmor eleh, Qaddish and Barekhu
… ha-mevorakh ("Bless the Blessed Lord!"). This tripartite musical unit is a characteristic of the Portuguese …
Divre Yermiyahu (Jeremiah 1:1-9)
… Av. The subdued, mournful style of this melody recalls the musical characteristics of the chanting of q innot (dirges) …
Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
… of the Temple of Jerusalem, are one of the oldest musical layers in the Western Sephardi liturgical …
Eikha yashvah badad (Lamentations 1:1-4 and 5:21)
… read in public according to the masoretic accents. The AAB musical form of the melody reflects the particular division …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern Jewish musical research. Idelsohn’s life traversed several … artifacts that still define in many ways the Jewish musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. … to move or touch anything in his study. Father had a musical baritone voice. His study, at the back of the house, …