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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… . By stressing the wide spread usage of the melodic patterns, Reider disarms the Sephardic hypothesis even if De …
Freylekhs (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Sher
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
A Recovered Voice from the Past
Preface
The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… because the cellular and circular nature of the melodic patterns make the determination of key arbitrary (2001, 3n8; … arbitrary, in some cases, but with the observation that the patterns imply motion from one tonal center to another we … 157). Tarsi observes that Esther cantillation includes patterns in minor and the relative major, but the final …