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Prayer for the state
… prayer posed a dilemma for synagogue cantors regarding its musical performance. Since the Eastern Ashkenazi cantorial … on the basis of a sui generis combination of Ashkenazi musical patterns that has no precise parallel in the traditional repertoire. Since no official musical version was ever sanctioned, an oral tradition …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Images: Musical Transcription Transcription done by Abraham Zvi … Hebrew Song, published in 1922, and is dedicated to the musical traditions of the Persian, Bukharian and Daghestani …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … this style. The melody itself is not based on a universal musical language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly … this topical motif of the High Holidays forms a musical link between the festival season and the Shofet …
Hazzan (pl. Hazzanim)
… moments to insert piyyutim and often composed the musical settings themselves. During the Middle Ages, the …
Adon Olam
… someone on their deathbed. There is a wide range of musical settings for this hymn, including melodies from …
Akdamut millin
… is only recited in the Ashkenazi rite, and has two main musical settings; one is in a psalmodic style and the other …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… whether with or without text, are considered the core of musical creativity in all hassidic communities. They are … to this term among Ashkenazic hazzanim, see: Avenary, The musical vocabulatory of the Ashkenazic Hazanim , p. 190. [2] … pp. 75-77, no. 2 and p. 78, no. 3; Hajdu-Mazor, The Musical Tradition of Hasidism ,pp. 432-3, ex. 6. … Niggun …
Zemirot
… which are sung during and directly after Sabbath meals. The musical versions are numerous and heterogeneous reflecting a … God and his Sabbath and of God's remembrance of his people. Musically, the repertory of Zemirot Sabbath is diverse and eclectic. Within the Ashkenazic musical traditions one can point to a few types of melodies: …
Fal
… that from the first generations of the Hasidic movement, musically skilled Hasidim were aware to the fact that a … … Recorded by Andre Hajdu in Kefar Habbad, 1966. NSA Y438. Musical Transcription … Example of a niggun with one fal: Tov Li Toran Piha . Musical Transcription … 700 … Hasidic … Hasidim … 9565 … …
Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
… hard to define. In most cases, the term refers to a short musical unit, fragment, or snippet, with characteristics that are difficult to define by known musical terms. Generally, but not always, it is to be …