The Sheva' berakhot ("Seven Blessings") are a central component of the Jewish wedding…

… shared by all the variants. Each phrase is composed of two motifs which subdivide the long poetic verse of thirteen or … mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock of idiomatic motifs whose appearance indicates to the initiated listener … Southern (Italian) one. This cadence is a quotation of the motifs used for the closing masoretic accents of the …

… … … Songs … Song … 2006 … Music … Song … Israel … Songs … Motifs … Musica mizrakhit … Scale … Scales … Shirei Eretz …

This album features remastered recordings from American and European Klezmer greats such…

Mordekhai Seter (Novorossyisk, 1916 – Tel-Aviv, 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926)…

… … … Modality … Nusach - Nusah - Nusakh … Magen Avot … Motifs … Werner, Eric … Scale … Structure … minor … mode … …

… on Sabbath eve and say, 'Bo'i kala, Bo'i kala.' These two motifs would later appear in the piyyut 'Lekha Dodi'  …

… … … Modality … Nusach - Nusah - Nusakh … Magen Avot … Motifs … Werner, Eric … Scale … Structure … minor … mode … …

The fourth and fifth melodic interval appear to be characteristic of the group of…

Yonatan Malin is Associate Professor in the University of Colorado Boulder College of…