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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Literary Structure “Eli Eliyahu” is a simple shir ezor (also: … format. It is also possible to see that there is a musical rhyme matching the textual rhyme of each section of … … Iraq … Baghdad … Ottoman … North Africa … Middle East … Musical … Traditions … “Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… 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 …

The “Proclamation Style” in Hebrew Music
… 'spinal' tones, the group shows various sorts of structures … 10570 … Hebrew Music … Hebrew Melody … Proclamation … Melody … Melodic structure … Jewish musical tradition … Jewish music … The “Proclamation Style” …

Le Niggûn Merôn
… se distinguent assez nettement des airs de danse de structure simple qui sont partie courante de ces assemblées … paroles. Les airs qui font l'objet de notre étude sont d'unestructure 'musicale plus complexe et ne comportent pas de paroles. Ils …

The Musical Realization of Biblical Cantillation Symbols (te‘amîm) in the Jewish Yemenite Tradition
… are performed, the tunes are unified in that their structure depends on the te’amim , the … The aim of this paper is to present the repertory of the musical renditions of the Pentateuch and to investigate the relationships between the te’amim and their musical realization within these three social contexts. … …

Three Musical Ceremonies for Hôšanā Rabbah in the Jewish Community of Casale Monferrato (1732, 1733, 1735) (Hebrew)
… ' … Our main source of information as regards the musical events at the Jewish community of Casale Monferrato … State Library in Moscow. The manuscript contains three musical scores for ceremonies on hos'ana rabbah . Each … A special effort is made to identify the sources and the structure of the scores, since these may be regarded as …

Plurivocality in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of San‘a (Yemen)
… characteristics. These characteristics are found in the musical existence of certain specific musical elements common to all the Yemenite Jews. The search … Jewish music. In this article we will attempt to define the structure of this musical phenomenon in its performance …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… as Niggun ‘Akedah An inseparable part of the stanzaic structure of the ‘Akedah piyyutim is their designated … century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only implicit written records … Institute of Religion Another early example of such a musical instruction is found in the book of customs, …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … on Mount Sinai. The textual form consists of eight stanzas structured in estrofas zejelescas , a strophic form with a … we find that all variants share a common structure of four musical phrases of relatively equal length, with similar …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … can be reduced to a common source, Birnbaum proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. … of Jerusalem in 1964, Adler developed a research infrastructure which allowed him to process, transcribe, edit and …