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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… obscurity and are only known to experts in the history of modern Hebrew song. Na’aleh L’artzeinu is only dimly … culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into modern synagogue liturgical practice. As the first published … his first efforts in what would be a life-long devotion to modern Hebrew song. In 1922 Binder began his position as …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… around the world. There are six sets of melodies or “modes” in the Eastern Ashkenazi tradition of Biblical cantillation; I will characterize each mode with a variety of music-analytical tools (not only in terms of scales, as is often done), compare the modes with each other, and suggest hearings that link them …
Assaf Shelleg
… Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) studies modern and contemporary musics with a particular interest in …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… Jews. Manuscript 85 of the Archivio Storico Comunale of Modena contains fragments from an order of Selihot of the … pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock of idiomatic … Of course his terminology is a bit uncomfortable to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… many worshippers were seeking more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed … cry”—an octave leap at the opening of a melody—appears in modern Hebrew compositions in which the singing subject … modality is also a characteristic of the Ashkenazi prayer mode ( shteyger ) called Adonai Malakh . This shteyger is …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… the character of the texts included in this compilation. As modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric … sources that can be grouped into two versions, one in major mode (the vast majority of the documented versions) and one in a minor mode. Both versions are pentatonic or even tetratonic and …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… a particular time, and specified as a melody in the Turkish mode makam husseyni . Characteristic of this version is the … book “Elef zemer ve-‘od zemer,” a practical collection of modern and old Hebrew songs intended for Israeli singing …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… liner notes Mazor writes: “One of the oldest songs in the [modern] Hebrew repertoire. The author's name, Shlomo, is … song with an “Oriental” flavor. So far we have covered the modern Zionist story of Kikhlot yeini . However, what about … song Kikhlot yeini continues to appeal to audiences in the modern era, as evidenced by the recent 2012 version by …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… Outline The overall melodic structure, primarily in minor mode, consists of an initial upward arc, which then …
Remarks Concerning the Use of the Melograph in Ethnomusicological Studies
… but, as we shall discuss, the data obtained suggest new modes of analysis and concept. In Jerusalem, we have used …