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Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… three and six syllables respectively. This traditional melody in makam U'ak is widespread among Sephardi cantors who use it for singing other liturgical texts. The melody consists of two musical phrases repeated according to … and to the finalis (endingtone)toward the end of the melody – a melodic progression that characterizes makam …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… used lehanim is “Ezri yavo” (“My rescuer shall come”). This melody is interpreted here in two versions: the first one is … Jews, 2007). The second version is an adaptation of the melody of “Ezri yavo” to the poem “Yonat ‘elem” according to …
Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte
… itself consists of six rhymed couplets set to a similar melody, ending with the refrain ki-moshe (like Moses). Based … without a musical staff), which made transcription of the melody particularly challenging. Part of the fragment (line …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Avenary (1908-1994) discusses twenty-four variants of the melody for this piyyut. Avenary classifies these variants … pizmon comprises what Avenary calls the “common” Ashkenazi melody (seventeen versions, the earliest already documented … all the variants of the three sub-types of the “common” melody into one type. He also points out the features that …
Im nin'alu
… The singer opens with the song’s most widely known melody, which was popularized by Bracha Zefira among the … closing hemistich. The tawshihִ is sung to another, faster melody. It is usually sung in a responsorial manner, as … At the end of the song the singers sing a third, slower melody, and a coda-like passage, and then repeat the last …
Akdamut millin
… a psalmodic style and the other is set to a modern Western melody. … Akdamut millin …
Maqam
… Arabic term often translated as ‘mode’, ‘scale’, or ‘melody.’ … Maqam …
Zarka
… the cantillation of the Bible and possibly referring to the melody symbolized by its graphic form. … Zarka …
Mitsve Tants
… the dancers chanting a short text. The text, sung to a melody based on a tune from the Yom Kippur liturgy, includes …
Kol Nidrei
… the Hazzan and the congregation, while the Ashkenazi melody alternates between recitative declamation and highly …