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Uri Sharvit
… A Treasury of Jewish Yemenite Chants (1981) and Chassidic Tunes from Galicia (1995). In 1980 he won the League of …
Niggun Meron
… Niggun" which belongs to the repertory of old Meron tunes named after Abraham Alstein a merchant from Beyrut who …
Yigdal elohim hay
… cuadential pattern, this melody recalls German-Dutch folk tunes that are associated with hunting. … The Western …
Mizmor le-david (Psalm 29)
… recitation is widespread among Sephardi communities. The tunes used by the Western Sephardi Jews are strikingly …
Amen amen shem nora
… Saloniki and Turkey. The melody is one of the favorite old tunes of the Western Sephardi repertoire. Variants of it …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… had learnt how to read. Later I found out, that they were [tunes of] Polish folksongs or Hussar [cavalry] marches. The … and that he should go to Berlin. [3d] He sang in a choir tunes that were not to his liking of and finally found …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… did not mingle with German Jews…Their traditional tunes differ to a great extent from those of all other …