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The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… and countered the usual manner of improvising traditional tunes. The genuine homophony of synagogue chant … ornamentation. Apart from entirely new inventions and tunes of long standing, two ways of realizing and …
The Liturgy of Beta Israel: Music of the Ethiopian Jewish Prayer
Some scientific enterprises, like good wine, mature over a long period of time. The…
Arba Otiyot
This CD is dedicated to piyutim (sung sacred poetry) of the Jews of the Tafilalt (Berb.…
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… and Morocco. Additionally, the piyyut has been set to new tunes by contemporary Israeli composers. The Ottoman/Iraqi …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… with diverse techniques of recitation and learning tunes, fitting the character of the texts included in this … modernity made its inroads into Jewish homes, more metric tunes (such as Hassidic melodies) took over texts of the … traditional unmetered study or prayer formulae. A canon of tunes developed, first through the printing of musical …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… many of the characteristics of other known “Mt. Meron tunes,” as they became called following the studies of this …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… or just an adaptation of a Yiddish folk tune (or even two tunes) that he borrowed for this play, as was the standard …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
“The songs of Leibu await definitive professional evaluation,” wrote back in 1984 the…
Or Haganuz
Prof. André Hajdu, one of the first JMRC researchers, has joined forces with Cantor…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… the same melody-type (mostly of the first part only). The tunes of the Moldavian/Rumanian songs that we already … its structural affinity with an endless number of European tunes, the lack of individuality of the melody: “What do … . As is well known, this Bohemian composer utilized popular tunes of Bohemia as themes to his larger compositions. The …