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Israeli folksongs
… These include the fact that many are written in minor scales, are easy to sing and melodic, have similar subject …
Steiger Ahava Rabah
The Ahava Rabah Steiger is also known as Freygish. When the prayer includes a range of…
Andalusian Nuba
… –Morrocan, Algerian, and Tunisian. We will also discuss the scales and structure of the traditional Moroccan Nuba … created 24 Nubat that were based on 24 modes (or musical scales) that are called Tabai'a (Tab'a in the singular), one … in Tunisia (where there are 13 Nubat), and in Libya. Scales and Intervals The Andalusian scales are based on a …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… unity is no less manifest on the level of musical scales. These which feature an augmented second dominate in …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… of the dance niggunim reveals a common repertory of scales: major, natural minor, harmonic minor and scales with augmented seconds... The variability of tempo is …
Terkish (LKT)
… the source of the basic melody. He explores three D scales, shifting with each new section... This rhythm is the …
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 … taken here simply to reference the use of minor and major scales, or significant portion thereof, with the bottom note …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… stepping stones to transfer the music from the pentatonic scales into the diatonic ones. Hence behind various psalm …
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 …
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 …