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Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… This technique of Psalm recitation is widespread among Sephardi communities. The tunes used by the Western Sephardi Jews are strikingly similar to those used at the … presence of hazzanim of North African origin in Western Sephardi synagogues. Prior to the 20th century, lay members …
Va-ya'al Moshe me- 'arbot Mo'ab (Deuteronomy 34)
… of the venerable Spanish-Portuguese tradition … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes …
Keter
… qaddosh , 'Holy, holy, holy') by the piano. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes …
Ben adam mah lekha nirdam
… is employed for this text in Amsterdam. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes …
Atanu leḥalot panekha
… This is one of the oldest selihot melodies in the Sephardi ritual set to an ancient poem that dates back to … The melodies to which this text is performed in all Sephardi communities share a common, ancient kernel as was … (1986). The Amsterdam version, like all the related Western Sephardi ones, is characterized by a repetitive structure in …
Ahot qetannah
… In the Sephardi rite this piyyut attributed to Abraham Hazan … melody known in different variants throughout the Western Sephardi Diaspora. Almost identical to the version recorded … degree of improvisation allowed to the traditional Western Sephardi hazzan (changes of tempo, rubato, dynamics). The …
Shema' qoli
… Academy of Babylonia (today Iraq). It was adopted by the Sephardi communities as an introduction to the Yom Kippur … This melody recalls the ones used for this poem in other Sephardi communities, especially in North Africa. This … items in the High Holiday musical repertoire of the Western Sephardi liturgy (compare Aguilar-De Sola 1857 : 32, no. …
'Et sha'are ratzon
… and Aleppo (Syria) in the 12th century. It serves, in the Sephardi liturgy only, as a preface to the shofar service. This traditional Western Sephardi melody differs substantially from the tune for the same text sung in the Eastern Sephardi communities. The last stanza of the poem ( …
Kol nidrei
… This is a rare recording of the entire Sephardi melody for what has become the main prayer for the … well-known, elaborated Ashkenazi melody for this text, the Sephardi melody is a litany with a narrow range that blends … of only half of the text, is from Amsterdam. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes …
Miyom qadmon
… designed for this poem by the poet himself. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes …