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Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… the end of the Late Bronze Age. Did they bring with them a tradition of oral heroic poetry, cognate to that which eventually …
Between Tradition and Modernity
… Between Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of … as well as of the entire Southern German liturgical Jewish tradition round out the 470 pages of this book, making it … as one of the most significant transcriptions of the oral tradition of Ashkenazic ḥazzanut. More specifically, …

Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… humanistic writers of the sixteenth century but also the oral traditions – stories, explanations, conceptions – that … naturally very difficult to determine the origin of these traditions since we generally have no texts on which we can …

La musique juive dans l’Espagne médiévale
… combien nombreux furent les Juifs installés sur le littoral espagnol de la Méditerranée et aux Baléares. Les villes … de siècles, il n’est pas diiffcile d'imaginer que le chant traditionnel des Juifs péninsulaires s'appropria et élabora, …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… the end of the bakkashot season according to the Moroccan tradition, of which Rabbi Atiyah was one of its main … maintained and kept alive the Moroccan Jewish singing tradition in Israel against all odds. He was a transitional … At times, announcements about his classes were passed orally, without formal advertisement. His monumental …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946) . … Not all traditional Jewish holiday songs have survived in their … as well as by professional singers. A performance from oral tradition of Idelsohn’s second (“folk”) melody, sung by … a melody that, to our present knowledge, did not survive in oral tradition. Sephardic lineage As we have noted, …
Arba Otiyot
… by other authors, which are related to the Moroccan Jewish tradition. The concept and performance of this production … Sacred Hebrew Songs from the Saharan Maghreb … Piyyutim … Choral, Choral music … Choirs, Choral … 5 … 2017 … Piyyut … Piyyutim … …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… New Findings about the 'Traditional' Israeli Melody for Mah Nishtanah Jewish music … text combines elements of a learning session (casuistry of Oral Law passages and other pedagogical texts) with … of the Haggadah has been maintained and transmitted by oral tradition as well as in written sources since the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… is an order of prayers for the entire year according to the tradition of Worms. Before the poem “Melitz yosher ya’amod, … lack of fixed beat of this melody, a feature kept in all oral variants]. The research infrastructure laid by Avenary … 11, p. 306. Edwin Seroussi. “Toward a history of Jewish oral traditions: The singing of the prayer ‘Hayom harat …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern Ashkdnazi tradition, a tradition that developed in the areas that … syllabic accent is generally specified in pedagogy (both oral and notated). The te’amim themselves are given above … differentiation because it is a variable feature of oral practice and it is not necessary for the present …