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2019.07.10

Giula Shamilli

The experience of analyzing Sephardic prayer

Is it possible that the syntagmatical sequence of cantillation signs used in the Babylonian tradition determines the coherence of the melodic patterns of Avinu Malkeinu, the main Jewish prayer sung in the communities of Western Asia? If so, what exactly distinguishes the prayer chant from similar patterns in the Torah cantillation? We will try to find the answer to these questions based on the musical transcription (G. Shamilli) of the audio recording of the legendary cantor Isaac Maggioro (1918-2008). [*The report was carried out according to the RFBR project No. 18-012-00227a "Conceptualization of music in the Abrahamic traditions. Theory-History-Practice"].

Materials:

G.B. Shamilli, A.V. Kharuto. Sephardic Prayer. From the Transcription to the Melogramma and Back Again in Thought on Music in the Abrahamic Traditions-2019. Conceptions of Sound & Sonority from Antiquity to 21st Century.. M: State Institute for Art Studies. 2019. P.61-77.

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