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Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… ' … The comparison of a great number of variants of a folk melody was undertaken by Bela … Jewish ethnomusicology two generations ago. A considerable number of tunes with many variant versions has been recorded …
Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… lists of names, titles, textual and musical incipits, folio numbers, concordances, variant spellings and other similarly …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… filmmakers and film composers deployed a number of myths, strategies, and repertoires in an attempt …
The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation — a Reexamination
… In 1960 Anne Kilmer published two lists of so-called key-numbers or coefficients for various computations — similar … from similar mathematical lists; it presented pairs of numbered entities, each apposed to an entity of another … represented a paradigmatic sequence of strings. In the Key-Number Table, therefore, each pairing of strings denotes …
Nudity and Music in Anatolian Mythological Seduction Scenes and Iconographic Imagery
… is employed as a means of enhancing erotic seduction. A number of cultic, sexual iconographic representations …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of little scholarly attention, despite the significant number of transcriptions bearing the title ‘Akedah , and … poems generally consist of four-line stanzas with varying number of syllables in each line, [8] and usually with the … 1950, 538–547), or aaax, bbbx, etc. [9] In addition, a number were written in rhyming couplets (Goldschmidt 1965b, …
Moshe Attias
… in Morocco itself, as the responses to his large number of videos on YouTube show. Musically speaking, the …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… leads to a diverse collection of variants. Despite this, a number of common textual and contextual traits, and in some … with a large Sephardic population. There are a great number of important sources emanating out of Northern Italy …
Ben-Zion (Yisrael Noach) Kapov-Kagan
… in 1899 in Romania. He began singing from a young age in a number of synagogue choirs, obtaining his first paid …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… bars are the musical counterpart of the constant numbers of syllables adhered to in a regular meter and the … as a pizmon . It consists of four stanzas with differing number of lines (four, five, five, and six respectively) … melody is actually A x B, whereas x represents the varying number of lines in each stanza while B is only used for the …