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A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 13 th century containing our poem (twice) is the French (Western Ashkenazi) order of prayers for the High Holy Days, … poem, and obviously it indicates that in the circle of the (Western Ashkenazi) users of this manuscript there was an … more important from an historical perspective is that this Western Ashkenazi source apparently moved eastwards, as it …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… a feeling of mercy according to the affects’ conventions of Western music. Yet immediately afterwards, instead of the …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… (Hamburg: M. Lessmann, 1933) published an old niggun from West Prussia transmitted to him by K. Lowenstein. Although …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… for Kol Israel (Israel Radio) in the 1950’s. This is a very Westernized version of the Ottoman melody and is very … Weider, The Formulation of Jewish Liturgy in the East and West. Vol. 1. Jerusalem, Yad Itzhak Ben Zvi, 1998, 114-115. …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… upward arc, which then descends, in conclusion, to its lowest point at the tonic note. Part A of each stanza quickly … melodies of the other versions, in contrast, remain in a Western minor modality. The above sound examples provide …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… performed by the precentor or Cantor in the communities of Western Asheknaz (the lands near the Rhine and Upper … - Cantors … Hebrew cantillation … Synagogue music … Western Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi … Cantorial Fantasia … The …
Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… we have used the Melograph for the analyses of non-Western music since 1958. As is well known, Israel has …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … Edith (Esther) Gerson …
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… musical tradition of the old Synagogue; (2) the attitude of Western music historians to the question of Jewish influence …
An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… and cantors in the entire world, from the Jews of [Western] Ashkenaz to the Jews of Poland and from the Jews of …