… al- ʿ arabiyyah more generically signifies “all musical idioms that are composed and performed by Arabs, provided that these idioms do not transcend the boundaries of Arabic musical …

… major mode and consider that cultural meaning of a musical idiom may change over time; as Idelsohn writes, [I]t is … in the High Holiday liturgy, and indeed the musical idiom of this liturgy at large. The ‘Akedah melody may sound …

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