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"Ki hinneh kahomer"
… pattern of the Hasidic Waltz niggun with the Classical structure A-B-C-B. It was originally sung without words but …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… different melody, but maintains a similar lyrical structure and theme (example 2). Here, however, there is a … different. While the first version of the song has a simple melodic structure in a major key with a steady rhythm … G and F#. Beregovski wrote that this section and “its melodic formulation create the impression that we are really …

Coplas - Complas
… Strophic poems, with various but very definite textual structures, in a characteristic continuity or coherence of …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… This music is highly functional; it is generated by the structures and contents of sacred texts whose ceremonial … melodies with fixed meter with various permutations of melodic and rhythmic formations in-between these two … rather slow tempo gradually accelerates (2:04, 3:19). This melodic and rhythmic formula is identical to the one used to …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… repertoire from Western Ukraine: Slow development of the melodic contour. From the three sections that compose this … the highest pitches in the whole piece. This rhythmic-melodic peak appears in the middle of the third section out … signal || c’ac’a-c’efa’ || b”bca-b”bca’ Figure 6: Rhythmic structure of Nign no. 3. Natural minor modality with …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… of the lines grows from three words to five and seven. The structure of the lines and their rhythmic meter certainly … every holiday with its own distinct melody, or at least melodic structure. These 'seasonal melodies' were taken from … the words (excluding God's name which is sung with a short melodic motif), the melodies in the Polish tradition are …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Literary Structure “Eli Eliyahu” is a simple shir ezor (also: … It is possible to distinguish between two branches of melodic traditions associated with this piyyut : the … (D) or the tonic (A) in the other versions. The chromatic melodic movement in the stanzas is similar to that of “Ein …

Freylekhs (LKT)
… or Galicia, Rumania, and so on [fn. 3: Here I do not mean melodic variation of one or another šer but of the very … character, skočnes were almost the same as frejlaxs , and melodically they have no non-Jewish traits.... From what … implied choreographically, but not musically, different structures. Beregovski stated that the freylakhs and sher …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… as Niggun ‘Akedah An inseparable part of the stanzaic structure of the ‘Akedah piyyutim is their designated … we regard the Niggun ‘Akedah as a non-metrical flexible melodic formula which could be adapted to a varying … of the following prayer. In some cases, the transitional melodic line is developed into a bravura on high notes. The …