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Society for Jewish Folk Music
… national poet, Haim Nachman Bialik. The poem, rich in Biblical reference, expresses the poet’s desolation and loss …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… [In Ukrainian]. Malin, Yonatan. 2016. “Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis.” …
Book Review: Music’s Making - The Poetry of Music; The Music of Poetry
… on the cantillation of the Bible, “Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation, An Interpretive Analysis, by Yonatan …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… the old-fashioned pentatonics with their reminiscences of Biblical chant. The “alternative” Eastern European melody of … on the High Holidays. The use of a prominent motif of Biblical chant as the final cadence of most Shofet versions … there are precedents for the connection of Bible texts with Biblical chant. Furthermore, this topical motif of the High …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… are an assortment of very diverse sources and registers: biblical and oral law passages, post-biblical prayers in poetic prose and poems (piyyutim) … for the opening qaddish as if announcing musically the themes of the Holiday. For example, the melody of the piyyut …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… recent Zionist establishment, while maintaining a taste of biblical antiquity. This music institute would be the first … force text, which in a mere 107 pages covers a period from Biblical times and to the modern national revival, does not …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… and genre. The first “song” is in fact a collection of biblical verses (Psalms 115: 16; Jeremiah 17: 7; Psalms 29: … חסדו (תהילים קי"ח, 1) This selection is similar to the biblical verses composing the last paragraph of the Grace of … text recorded by Levy, sung to the same melody as the biblical verses, is the Judeo-Spanish biblical romance/copla …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… (Lucena, Al-Andalus, 1038-1089), a halakhic authority, Biblical commentator and poet, this Iberian order of selihot …

Jewish Identities and Ideologies in Music
… he believed, Jewish song could be restored to its former biblical glory, thus contributing to the spiritual …