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To Please Both the Ear and the Eye: Moses Mendelssohn, Equal Temperament and the Delian Problem
… der Musik (Part 2, pp. 95-109) an essay giving a geometrical construction for equal-tempered division of the …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… figures in contemporary taste; it is composed of symmetrical phrases in strict time. The other genre of …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… Unlike Saltiel’s ethnographic recording, here the metric form is clearly outlined, primarily performed in 2/4, … groupings of the beat into 3. We can observe that this metric form differs from the first three examples (variant … of 2 and 3, but rather remain in 2. Below is an outline of metric form in Saltiel’s version that illustrates its …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… shva nah is performed as shva na h , in accordance with the metric structure. [7] Abraham Z. Idelsohn, Thesaurus of …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… As modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric tunes (such as Hassidic melodies) took over texts of … this tune also recalls the Ashkenazi learning chant, its metric character and the contour of the melody in the minor … dominated milieu, Sephardic and Oriental Jews learned many metric Haggadah tunes taught in kindergartens, schools and …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… the song is in duple meter and it mostly has simple and symmetrical rhythmic structures, which include quarter notes, …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… meter and Idelsohn’s in 3/4. The second melody differs both metrically and melodically from the first. It was published …
Sirba
… pattern was alien to Ashkenazic dance, which preferred symmetrical patterns....the [was also] rhythmically …
Mazltov (LKT)
… notation and recording references included). “Non-metrical genres included wedding ritual tunes such as …
Volekh (LKT)
… the volekhl is most often played in conjunction with non-metric improvisations like the doina , or as a gas nign. …