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A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… rhythm progression of eighth notes, the second version’s scale is an altered Dorian, which, according to Beregovski's …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… melody-type found throughout Europe in both major and minor scale versions. This melody-type has been the object of a …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, contours, resting pitches, final pitches, … a variety of music-analytical tools (not only in terms of scales, as is often done), compare the modes with each … of Jewish music since Idelsohn—to refer not only to a scale, but also to characteristic motives, pitch …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… compositional route and set the melody in the major scale. In Ashkenazi cantorial music, the major scale and its derivatives are generally perceived as being … first half of the musical section concludes on the second scale degree on a half cadence. After a repeat of the …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… [9] Unique to this version is the opening note on the third scale degree (F) beneath the final note, instead of on the …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… occurred on August 18, 1917. Especially destructive in scale, the fire came as a great blow to the Jewish community … communal school, had stood before the fire. Today, the upscale Electra Palace hotel sits in the heart of the city … the dominant, ascending upward to the 7th (minor) or octave scale degree (depending on the version) and concluding on …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… (newer version) The ʽJoyful’ Major and the Pentatonic Scale When consulting nineteenth century cantorial compendia … major mode avoid the leading tone E’. This six-tone scale recalls the medieval hexachordum molle (the soft … 1953), which explored the universality of the pentatonic scale. Among Brailoiu’s observations he noted the important …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… common thread between these two variants of a flatted third scale degree (A-flat), which as a stand-alone case could be … variants above, but without the use of the flatted third scale degree. This example, due to its simplicity, is …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… that are gloomier and more dense”] minor and Shtejger -scales.” These stereotypes of Eastern Ashkenazi liturgical … minor mode. Moreover, the different opening of an ascending scale from 1 to 5 instead of the more chordal openings of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… detailed discussion on the Aeolian and altered Phrygian scales recalls the debate between two prominent Jewish … Jewish Folk Music: Lazare Saminski, who praised the Aeolian scale and regarded the Phrygian scale as its corruption, and Joel Engel, who considered the …