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A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)

… Although aligned mostly with the Western Sephardic tradition, it contains unique texts such as the selection of … that the transcribers attempted to faithfully convey the oral tradition in music notation without letting their … number of words. One could argue that the process of oral transmission within a very small community led to the …

4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)

… to the repertoire of the Sephardim of Northern Morocco, a tradition that has preserved in oral memory one of the most complete versions of this text. … Turkey is a clear example of the vicissitudes of Sephardic oral memory. The music of ‘The Tablets of the Law’ has been …

Léibele Schwartz

… music, Néstor transcribed the melodies created by Léibele orally and made the arrangements. Among his original works … the prayer ‘Omnam ken,’ according to the Polish liturgical tradition) and ‘Labrit habet’ (from the piyyut ‘Ki hine … Hasidic songs and songs from the Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions (see Discography below ). In 1986 he filmed a …

Yoel Greenberg

… methods from data science and systems-theory to bear on traditional concerns of music theory, He has published … musicology at the Hebrew University, and has done post-doctoral work in the departments of music, and of ecology and …

‘Le-El ‘Olam’ in Sefer ha-maftir shel Urbino

‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem

… the Mishnaic Tractate ‘Ethics of the Fathers’] when it is [traditionally read, a chapter on each Sabbath] between Pesah … publication of Sefer ha-Maftir (Jerusalem, 1964). Did any traditional melody for ‘Le-El ‘Olam’ survive in oral tradition? Unfortunately, Elio Toaff did not record …

Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire

… I have to admit that I liked least the singing of the choral-cantor and his choir, to me it sounded too cold and the … in the opera, however, ended badly; disgusted with the immoral conduct of the players. I gave up my studies and, … thirty years ago and more, it was said that the basis of traditional music of the synagogue was located in Southern …

The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition as Sung by Abraham Lopes Cardoso

A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)

4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)

Léibele Schwartz

Yoel Greenberg

‘Le-El ‘Olam’ by Mordecai Dato: In search of a melody for an ancient Italian Hebrew poem

Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire

Berukhim atem qehal emmunai

Amen amen shem nora

Qumi ve-sifdi torah

Eikha yashvah badad (Lamentations 1:1-4 and 5:21)

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