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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis

… the phrasing of the text (prosody), and the melodic motif for each word. Some of the Tiberian te’amim are … in this book need not be imitated slavishly. Rather, the motifs should be internalized by constant repetition until …

A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions

… shared by all the variants. Each phrase is composed of two motifs which subdivide the long poetic verse of thirteen or … mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock of idiomatic motifs whose appearance indicates to the initiated listener … Southern (Italian) one. This cadence is a quotation of the motifs used for the closing masoretic accents of the …

“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies

… to believers during the Sabbath. Therefore, a prominent motif in these songs is the figure of Elijah the Prophet …

Figure 2: 'Enosh ʽad daka tashev' with the Indication Be-niggun ‘Akedah

Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac

… Likewise, the Binding of Isaac has constituted a common motif in works of art among Jews throughout the ages (Sabar … had a psalmodic formula containing opening and closing motifs; in between them was a simple recitation tone ( tonus … and Caspar Amman’s transcriptions of the Torah cantillation motifs at the beginning of the sixteenth century and the …

The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar

… meter in A, flexible beat in the Lamentation’s cantillation motif in B). Breuer’s version shows that the mainstream … Also noticeable is the “Dorian coloring” of the opening motif (b natural instead of b flat), that creates a moment … 6 (b flat) only at the end of the closing Lamentations’ motif. Heymann’s version shows a dramatic melodic deviation …