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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… included in his publications many songs he knew through oral transmission from his childhood (Idelsohn 1932, p. x). … land. Karnes’s model proposes that songs transmitted orally by non-professional performers were collected prior …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… generation of Jews in various vernacular languages, in both oral and written forms (Spiegel 1967, 13–16; Moreen 2000, … until the late eighteenth century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15] The only …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… to remain a stable written one once it started to circulate orally. It underwent, in the process of its reception and … Krachevsky; immigrated to Palestine in 1906), who set a choral arrangement of Hatikvah for the Gymnasia Herzliyah was … He does not propose however any specific chain of transmission to explain how or why barbarano and Hatikvah …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… 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 … this flexibility “is not an accidental by-product of oral transmission,” rather “it was brought about by a common …