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8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… paḷḷi like a pearl! Among the four sides, they chose the western one To build the holy heikhal—so greatly desired As … practice. Following construction of the Torah ark on the western wall (closest to Jerusalem, as in all the Kerala … the raised platform from which the Torah is read aloud. In Ashkenazi synagogues, it is called the bimah. [3] See …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… Cherlin’s musical tastes extend well beyond the classical western canon? These are all essential aspects of the … Since the ninth century in France, musicians from the western traditions have felt that the benefits of pitch and … summary article on the cantillation of the Bible, “Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation, An Interpretive Analysis, …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… among the different regions inhabited by eastern Ashkenazim, which since the seventeenth century had been … in music: While a significant portion of Polish and western Galician nigunim tended to an openness to the western European musical fashions and accumulated chordal …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… when compared to the predominantly canonical Sephardic and Ashkenazi ones in all their variants. Although aligned mostly with the Western Sephardic tradition, it contains unique texts such … reveals, indeed shows a certain allegiance to the Western Sephardic traditions, especially those from Livorno. …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… citizens, to align themselves within the rigid Sephardic/Ashkenazi binary. The only document we possess for the … below by Milhaud) shows some musical connections with the Western Sephardic (aka Spanish-Portuguese) liturgy such as those of south-western France (Bayonne, Bordeaux). However, this volume …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… belongs to a cycle of several romance/coplas widespread in Western Mediterranean traditions, and most especially north … to the Sabbath zemirot that are more characteristic of Ashkenazi Jews. A more detailed inquiry into these texts …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… Semogalen [i.e in the district of Samogitian in northwestern Lithuania] who had to give up his trade and hide … two years. There I was compelled to study thoroughly the Ashkenazic chazzanut , and I transcribed it in musical … had a heart attack and died. Endnotes [1] Liepaja in western Latvia, the third largest city of that country. …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… British Palestine, Lithuanian Jewish South Africa, and Midwestern American Reform Judaism. What is missing is a … Frequent moves between Jerusalem’s emerging Jewish western neighborhoods outside the Old City are noticeable. … the spoken language in opposition to the orphanage of the Ashkenazi community run by the Haredi community where …
Kol nidrei
… the eve of Yom Kippur. Unlike the well-known, elaborated Ashkenazi melody for this text, the Sephardi melody is a … of only half of the text, is from Amsterdam. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham …
Keter
… ( see no, 2 above ). It shows the influence of 19th century Ashkenazi cantorial music on this hazzan and composer. Upon … qaddosh, qaddosh , 'Holy, holy, holy') by the piano. … The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham …