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Four Melodies for Four Questions
… (the vast majority of the documented versions) and one in a minor mode. Both versions are pentatonic or even tetratonic … (no. 117; see also discussion of the tune in p. xvii) in minor mode (below). The tune is based on the descending … 8-5 (recitation tone)-1 with the addition use of 3. This minor version may reflect an Eastern European version of …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… Melodic Outline The overall melodic structure, primarily in minor mode, consists of an initial upward arc, which then … quickly opens to the dominant, ascending upward to the 7th (minor) or octave scale degree (depending on the version) and … nature, ascending and descending in stepwise motion, with a minor modality, as observed below in transcription form …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… environmental influences such as chordal progression, major-minor-tonality, and contemporary figurative ornamentation. …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of an ‘Akedah piyyut with a simple psalmodic phrase in the minor mode, then cantor and congregation would recite the … pien tones from the famous Eastern European melody for the minor confessional ’ Ashamnu, Bagadnu , which today sounds … agreement is the difference in feeling between major and minor. It is interesting, however, that [Johann] Mattheson …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… 1702 (or later) is nearly identical, with the exception of minor spelling differences, to another manuscript from …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… Music”), obscures the long participation of ethnic minorities in local and regional music traditions or at …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… his Hamnazeah (1898, no. 66). Though similar in its modal minor setting and melodic contour to Sulzer’s, Wodak’s … preserves the A x B melodic structure, it is in plagal minor and in a psalmodic style that sets it out from all … Hebrew: “by sonorities that are gloomier and more dense”] minor and Shtejger -scales.” These stereotypes of Eastern …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… he devoted attention to the collection of songs from minority communities which inhabited Latvia, namely, Jews, … concerts of all-Jewish programs with the “Jewish minorities’ orchestra.” The events were advertised in both … Idelsohn (1932, xviii, fn. 1) found that around 40% are in minor keys. Yet, among these forty-two songs in minor, only …
Dan Deutsch
… Centre for Jewish Studies. His dissertation, Music as “Minor Literature”: Form and Syntax in Mahler’s Das Lied von … the backdrop of his social status as part of a Jewish minority. In his current research, he expands the scope of …
Moshe Cordova
… the Ottoman Turkish tradition. The Turkish makam became a minority practice among Sephardic Jews in Israel, kept alive …