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Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog
… His ties to the national religious movement and his musical and musicological upbringing soon opened doors of … the goal of this new institution was to document Jewish musical traditions and make them available to the … Herzog had now at his disposal the technological infrastructure and means of archiving that allowed him to immerse …
7. Una cierta hija (Jacob Algava)
… fragment, see NSA Y 09506(1) by Shelomo Venezia. The musical structure of each stanza consists of three melodic phrases …
50. Bezokhri 'al mishkavi (Çakum Effendi)
… rhythmic cycle of 15/4 (sometimes 16/4) per phrase. The musical structure of the opening stanza is aabA and of the second …
El Jiwneh Hagalil (Lied der galilaischen Arbeiter) – God will Build the Galilee (Galilee Worker’s Song)
… content of his album. El jiwneh Hagalil answered both the musical and pedagogical requirements of this album. … ( ahava raba ) mode, El jiwneh Hagalil offers a contrasting musical symbol signifying the modern Jewish national rebirth … its diatonic cyclical contour and fundamental rhythmic structure. While Kisselgoff’s transcription quoted in …
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 … is a dirge-like tune in a rhythmic style that stresses the structure of the text in a manner that differs from the …

From Destruction to Rebuilding in the Iberian Peninsula
… Yehuda synagogue in Gibraltar, through a study of three musical examples from the community repertoire and the comparison of these examples with other musical sources from the greater Spanish and Portuguese … text, inner subdivisions, rhyming patterns and the overall structure. The musical analysis will compare the …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… 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 …
El infante cautivo (Carselero i piadoso, Karselero al piadoso, Carcelaro ipiadoso, Karselero ai piadoso, Karselero i piadoso)
… Eastern Sephardi style of Greece and Turkey. The literary structure of the text (see the text below presented … conventions of romance scholarship) is obliterated by the musical structure, a feature noticeable particularly in the … by the additional singing of nonsense syllables to complete musical phrases. - Carcelero y piadoso, ansi el Dio te dé la …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… experiences, it was widely appreciated for its beauty, musical features, and spiritual power, emerging from … and rhythmic qualities. These two functions—the extramusical as the primary and the aesthetic as the … seeking “meaning by making connections between musical structure and stories” (Malin 2019, 115), providing solid …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… me at all. To the contrary, I would like to hear a few musical things about it. There was nothing to read about … I would indeed like to know what objection my opponents, musically—objectively, have against my work. So please … how do those omissions influence the book’s character and structure? It is the nature of modern scholarship that many …