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Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Aksiuk (no. 116). Here the nign appears in its original tonality, e minor natural. Figure 2: Moscow edition, 1962, … of his planned five-volume collection of Jewish Music. The tonality was restored to g minor natural, as in Beregovski’s …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… choice that reflects an internal Latvian debate over the tonality of “authentic” folk songs. While Karnes presents …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… the fourth degree of the mode, thus weakening the tonality of the minor mode. Moreover, the different opening …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… the transcriptions, they are all presented in the uniform tonality of F (the original tonality is noted) with the letters A, B, C and D added to … and fourth phrases (B, D) are indicated as Chor (choir). Tonality and Meter D, no fixed meter Remarks Only the …

The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… influences such as chordal progression, major-minor-tonality, and contemporary figurative ornamentation. Apart …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… of this coda. Figure 3. The Melody and its Ambiguous Tonality The song opens, as we have seen, with the dominant …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… the young Moroccan cantor that as a rule refrains from microtonality is drawn into the distinctive sharki (“oriental”) …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… he also observes that subsidiary cadences “simulate a minor tonality structured on [the] second scale-degree” (2002; … Esther mode more strongly from Lamentations mode—but the tonality as a whole remains mobile. The G arrivals are not … prepared. [44] Comparison with features of common-practice tonality are inevitable—and not entirely inappropriate since …

Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… the pieces, whereas the European Karaites highlighted the tonality and the symmetry of the length of the motifs, as … are replaced by highlighting the aspects of Western tonality. Change and Preservation in the Karaite Musical …
Kedusha
… there is a tendency to perform the first Kedsuah in a minor tonality and the second Kedusha in a major. Furthermore, …