… with them as they migrated, including literary traditions, musical forms and the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino. The Jewish musical life that developed in Saloniki consisted of these … strophic in form, with a varying but definite textual structure. According to Weich-Shahak, the majority of coplas …

… two stanzas) with each line consisting of two hemistiches. Musically, each textual line is accompanied by a melodic phrase. This pattern creates a binary musical structure of two phrases which alternate in an ABAB …

… such as  seli h ot . I have studied in great detail the musical setting of this poem in Sephardic communities, … among various communities, there seems to be an underlying musical structure tying together all the documented versions of the …

… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … of the Elbe and Moldau river) (see image no.3 ). A melodic structure of four phrases, corresponding to the four lines … this style. The melody itself is not based on a “universal musical language” (Avenary’s term) like pentatonics, but …

… express itself in its particular contemporary literary and musical taste has engendered new songs. These new songs … Many and the Few , Happy Joyous Hanukka h  -- the latter is structured as a cumulative song similar to the Passover … the recording but rather appears in his published lyrics). Musically, there is not much that differentiates these songs …

… to the text in tight phrasing: It is strophic in structure and has two stanzas, each containing eight lines. … 7th, but stays mostly within the range of a fifth. The structure of the song is very clear. Each line is fitted … If we take the repetition out of consideration, we see a structure called 2n, going from the small unit of one bar, …

… to establish what the essential parameters of the poetic structure are in order to find out a possible source. While … non-Jewish songs predate the 1526 Prague Haggadah, their structure, in the opinion of some scholars, is not always … heiligen Zahlen and O Lector lectorum follow a similar structure of questions and answers and its numbers are …

… logic, that they preserved older layers of Jewish musical memory although he did not discount also the … (generically defined as “medieval French chants”). Musically speaking, Minhag Carpentras, as Chants hebraïques … or “rr”, ’ayin (ע) as “h” and fei (פ) as “ph”. The musical structure of this piece is rather unique. Its compositional …

… on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist … wo die Zeder has been profusely printed with and without musical notation and distributed orally since its original … the twentieth-century. Various attributions of poetic and musical authorship, sometimes contradictory, rendered the …

… Library, a still largely unexplored treasure of Jewish Musical Americana, includes a magnificent recording of … famous Purim songs. The most prominent one in terms of its structure and length is a unique cantorial rendition of the …