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Hanukkah Blessings
… in his comprehensive volume Musique religieuse ancienne et moderne en usage dans les Temples Consistoriaux Israélites …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered by modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… Talmudic times. Each Jewish community developed a specific mode of Selihot and its own textual compilation. However, …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock of idiomatic …
Hazzan (pl. Hazzanim)
… character. The role of the hazzan today is similar in many modern congregations, though major reforms have been …
Akdamut millin
… one is in a psalmodic style and the other is set to a modern Western melody. … Akdamut millin …
Maqam
… Arabic term often translated as ‘mode’, ‘scale’, or ‘melody.’ … Maqam …
Zemirot
… texts of changing lengths and leaned heavily on Liturgical modes and formulae. 2. Non-Jewish folk tunes served as the …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman Empire … and, later, on radio and in films. The accessibility of the modern Arabic music spread by new media hastened its … music still echoed in the prayers and piyyutim; and a more modern stratum, the urban Arabic musical culture which …
Hasidism
… Hasidism grew out the desire to replace the overly academic model of Jewish observance with a focus on prayer, …