… Although Goldfaden had no formal musical education, he arranged the majority of the music for his plays. Goldfaden’s corpus was very eclectic; he drew from a wide range of sources including synagogue melodies, Jewish … and Italian and French opera arias. Many of the songs arranged for his plays were originally folk songs, and gained …

… to the Middle Eastern influence on the piece. The melodic range is limited. The meter is duple, like most Hassidic …

… these common traits and distinctive qualities among a wide range of sources, both written and recorded, in order to … in Florence, 1715. This appendix of entries, “composed or arranged for every occasion…” by Meldola, includes piyyutim …

… ) were recited with simple melodic formulae of very narrow range, characteristic of learning and praying tunes rather … birthday of Miriam Abileah, Ephraims’ wife, in an arrangement for piano and voice (Haifa: Universum le-musiqa … the Four Questions , as in Music for the Seder , notated, arranged and composed by Martin Lawrence (London: New London …

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… cantor in fast tempo recitation within a narrow tonal range. Your browser does not support the audio element. …  extremely fast non-metrical recitations on a very narrow range;  2)    biblical cantillation with unclear beat and great contrast between fast recitation on a narrow range and lyrical isles of ornamented sound on a wider …

… and some for his children. The themes of the songs range from joyous children's songs, without much content … received wider recognition due to newly composed and rearranged versions recorded and performed by world-renowned …

… “Pesah a la mano” without attribution to its author have ranged from the New England Conservatory  in Boston to a …

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… voices. The score is divided by service beginning with arrangements for Shabbat Minhah and concluding with the … … Kabbalat Shabbat … Congregational singing … Ashkenaz … Arrangements … Germany … Europe … Arvit - Evening prayer … … … Berlin … Cantorial music … Choral … German Jews … Jews … range … Cantor … Ashkenazi … Louis Lewandowski … Kol Rinah …