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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 …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… text. A number of melodies for 'Shema' Koleinu' written by Ashkenazi composers in the twentieth century are in the … route and set the melody in the major scale. In Ashkenazi cantorial music, the major scale and its … a feeling of mercy according to the affects’ conventions of Western music. Yet immediately afterwards, instead of the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 1. Bavaria/Frankfurt-Main 2. Venizia/Gorizia 3. Province Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi Ashkenazi/Sephardi 3 … 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 …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… in the areas that comprise today Lithuania, Belarus, Western Russia, Ukraine and Poland and is now widely practiced in Ashkenazi congregations around the world. There are six sets … grounding in tradition in his own family of immigrants from Western Ukraine, close contact with leading cantors in the …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… transliterated in Latin letters in an inconsistent mix of Ashkenazic and Sephardic pronunciations. None of the songs … in Binder’s piano arrangement, which serve to add a Western chromaticism to the harmony rather than to create … to the prayer sung (or more precisely, melodeclamated) by Ashkenazic women at the end of Shabbat known as “Got fun …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… prominently in the scholarly literature concerning the Western Ashkenazi tradition. Those closer to his time thought …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… of the famous ‘Shoshanat Yaakov,’ which is sung in Ashkenazi synagogues after the evening reading of the … Hassidic centers, such as Belz (in the L’viv region of Western Ukraine, formerly part of Galicia). Similar to what …
On musical connections between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe
… Gol'din … Jewish folk music in Europe … Klezmer music … Ashkenazi … Max Goldin … Robert A. Rothstein … On musical … between Jews and the neighboring peoples of Eastern and Western Europe …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… Levin (1914-1983) from Czernowitz (today Chernivtsi in southwestern Ukraine). This new production of the Jewish Music … Yiddish music … USSR … Yiddish … Yiddish songs … Israel … Ashkenazi … Michael Lukin … Edwin Seroussi … Vemen vestu …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… melos” that is cross-culturally widespread and of which the Western Sephardic piyyut Lekh le-shalom geshem (see detailed … by Idelsohn), is found in the liturgical repertory of the Western Sephardic communities. It is the melody of the … another Jewish melody, the Leoni Yigdal , see below under Ashkenazi hypothesis) with the Italian predecessors (see …