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Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… poet, performer, teacher, archivist and editor. Without any structured institutional support, Rabbi Meir, as he was …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… strophic in form, with a varying but definite textual structure. According to Weich-Shahak, the majority of coplas … built upon common vowel sounds, creating an ABAB rhyme structure. Lines 1 and 3 share a common vowel sound, and in … a musical form of ABB. Melodic Outline The overall melodic structure, primarily in minor mode, consists of an initial …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… Literary Structure “Eli Eliyahu” is a simple shir ezor (also: … This creates a parallelization of the literary and rhythmic structures . Additionally, it is possible to see that the … is of a higher priority than the syntactic and semantic structure of the words, as the division into lines and units …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… “ya la la” and is centered on the fifth degree (G). It is structured in a classic ouvert-clos cadential pattern. …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the Elbe and Moldau river) (see image no.3). A melodic structure of four phrases, corresponding to the four lines … or Arab influence, with a corresponding modification of structure. Each usage, again, differs within itself … a feature kept in all oral variants]. The research infrastructure laid by Avenary and Francis L. Cohen is a solid …

Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… with te’amim and translation The basic phrasing and structure of this verse is readily apparent: it divides in … by exploring the correlation between melody and text structures in greater detail. The principle of recursive … that subsidiary cadences “simulate a minor tonality structured on [the] second scale-degree” (2002; vol. 1, part …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… famous Purim songs. The most prominent one in terms of its structure and length is a unique cantorial rendition of the …
Yonatan Malin
… Boulder College of Music. His research explores musical structure and meaning a wide variety of genres including …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… by a melodic phrase. This pattern creates a binary musical structure of two phrases which alternate in an ABAB form. … meter and it mostly has simple and symmetrical rhythmic structures, which include quarter notes, pairs of eighth … This theme is also expressed through the lyrics, which are structured with a recurring contrast between reality and …

Cross-Repertoire Motifs in Liturgical Music of the Ashkenazi Tradition: An Initial Lay of the Land
… music … Ashkenaz … Ashkenazi liturgy … motif … Motifs … Structure … Chazzan … Chazzanut … Hazzan … Musical structure … Repertoire … Synagogue … Synagogue music … …