To the comment that the Orientalist composer's intoxicating minor mode—based on what is called the ahava-rabba mode in Hebrew cantillation and klezmer music—is virtually the same as the mode Liszt called the "Hungarian Minor" in his rhapsodies, Mr. Botstein says that "many scholars have pointed out that the same musical gestures end up as ethnic signals for any number of cultures." ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2012)
Broad themes are discussed, such as the Divine Office and the Mass, but also detailed subjects such as psalmody, cantillation, modes, and pivotal chant manuscripts. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This year, my son studied his Torah portion and other prayers with a rabbi and learned the cantillation marks that guide the chanting. ❋ Susan Katz Miller (2011)
In 1892, he published a study of the neginot (cantillation marks) in the Masoretic text of the Bible, and in the next decade, working with Herbert Adler (1876 – 1940), a lawyer and nephew of Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler (1839 – 1911), prepared what became the standard British edition and translation of the mahzor (festival prayer book). ❋ Unknown (2009)
While it would appear that boys and girls followed a common curriculum, there was gender differentiation: Girls received instruction in sewing and needlework and boys in cantillation of Torah and haftarah. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As for the melody, here I touched upon the hasidic melodies and Yiddish songs of my late father with faint traces of Biblical cantillation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Of all of them, the cantillation for Eicha is the most beautiful, and the poetry of Eicha the most poignant and lovely if also tragic and horrible. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We read our books with special cantillation notes, using different melodies for different books. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When the haftarah is read in the synagogue it is sung with a special vocal modulation or cantillation taught to the child, and its related blessings are said before and after it. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I had no idea they had cantillation that you could download, but I so should have guessed. ❋ Unknown (2005)
And his work reflects years of studying African drumming, Balinese gamelan, Hebrew cantillation, jazz and early Western classical music. ❋ Unknown (2005)
There, Israeli women who pronounced my name Dog taught me to read Hebrew, and later, a tyrannical cantor taught me my cantillation marks so I could belt out Torah lines with the best of 'em. ❋ Douglas Hoffman (2005)
Developed in conjunction with SUGO magazine and the Venice Biennial of Visual Arts, Ghetto is a family of three fonts featuring Hebrew and Latin sets complete with numerals, punctuation, accented characters cantillation marks not included, signs and symbols. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Rolls that were for other use came in time to receive vowel-points and accents; these latter indicated the interrelation of words and modulation of the voice in public cantillation. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Mefistofele, who does not admire the Cherubs, likens their monotonous cantillation to the hum of bees. ❋ Henry Edward Krehbiel (1888)
The fact that the mele, in whatever form, was intended for cantillation, or some sort of rhythmical utterance addressed to the ear, has given to this word in modern times a special meaning that covers the idea of song or of singing, thus making it overlap ambiguously into the territory that more properly belongs to the word _oli_. ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)
