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Halleluya (Hallelujah)
… are sung in a responsorial manner, corresponding to the metrical units: the soloist sings the first part of each …
"Shalom levo shabbat" (Greetings on the coming of the Sabbath)
… are sung in a responsorial manner, corresponding to the metrical units: the soloist sings the first part of each …
Abda betauhid
… and is of a light and playful character. It includes asymmetrical rhythmical formulae, and hiatuses filled with …
Nahôn libbo is hujire – Whole-heartedly is the fearful believer
… F sharp minor and D Dorian F, slow versus fast tempo and symmetric versus asymmetric rhythms. Stutschewsky kept the mode, melodic contour, …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… by the cantor is performed in the customary fast non-metric recitative formula used daily, as are the other … of the pericope Beshalah. It has a characteristic hemiola metric pattern of twelve beats divided in 2+3+3+2+2. Your … of non-verbal sound patterning: 1) extremely fast non-metrical recitations on a very narrow range; 2) biblical …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… 15, 9, 10), while the rest – three or four tones only. Asymmetric rhythmic patterns. In opposition to the limited … i.e. freylekhs ). The order of the rhythmic patterns is asymmetric and yet well thought out. Three main patterns (a, b, …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… appeared. This is “a pattern of rhythmic bars and a symmetric structure [that] gives it the stamp of the common … poetic form and meter of the text. In his words, “the symmetrical bars are the musical counterpart of the constant … that Idelsohn’s comparative approach of Western Ashkenazi metric melodies such as “She’eh ne’esar” with non-Jewish …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… will be shown below, we regard the Niggun ‘Akedah as a non-metrical flexible melodic formula which could be adapted to …
Melody and Poetry in the “Kuzari” (Hebrew)
… that cantillation melodies are independent of the metrical symmetry of the text. One may sing to the same … movements, or for practical resp. useful purposes). For the metrical poems, however, which are verbose and …
Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… the presence of genius; in a sense, copying was diametrically opposed to art. According to this notion, …