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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… but Jewish cantillation does not generally have a regular beat or meter (Jacobson 2002, 14). Double barlines indicate …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… lines, attesting for the flexible rhythm and lack of fixed beat of this melody, a feature kept in all oral variants]. …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… the high C appears late on the second eighth of the strong beat, perhaps hinting at the flexible rhythm characteristic …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… this text with a pentatonic learning tune without clear beat and meter. This tune is variously called the Gemara … performed most of the ritual because tunes without clear beat and meter are not conducive to communal singing. The …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… performed in 2/4, with occasional groupings of the beat into 3. We can observe that this metric form differs … to the melody. Measures consisting of two and three primary beats are grouped into sections, and placed below the … same function as anacrusis The A section consists of 7 beats (2 - 2 - 3), whereas B consists of 13 beats (2 - 2 - 3 …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… still to be found, or he may counterpoise his singing by beating the drums or an array of percussion instruments as …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… (referred to in the Hasidic story above), during which Jews beat their chest with each word as an expression of remorse, …
Moshe Attias
… alternating instrumental and vocal phrases without fixed beat, leading to the song itself and then ending with an …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… based on its melismatic and recitative character, a looser beat. The melodic movement of B has two parts, the first of … terms of rhythmic organization (fixed meter in A, flexible beat in the Lamentation’s cantillation motif in B). Breuer’s … Weiss’ version is characterized by a more fluid sense of beat in comparison to other recorded or notated versions. …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… important features hinting at a common source: flexible beat; four-phrase structure; melodic contour ascending to … with three variants of the same melody without clear beat. These variants stem from the structure of the three …