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ISRAELI

MUSIC


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West asia - Israel

The music of West Asia is Modal.West Asian music are commonly

used during: Communal worship

Mystic rituals

Life passage events

Entertainment


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VOCAL MUSIC OF ISRAELAND ARABIA

A. Israeli music

Israeli singers have a distinctive vocal style.

They sing with gutturaland throaty

enunciation.


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TWO DIVISIONS OF JEWISH MUSIC

1. Devotional

Almost entirely vocal

Featured during Sabbath and other holy days

The art of Hazan has always been evident in the

culture

Shofar is a special call to prayer and repentance;

it is sounded on the High Holidays


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2. Secularinstruments and voice are used

Played during life passage eventsContext lies outside the religious domain

very rhythmic and have popular and

romantic texts


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B. Arabic Music

Arabic Maqam is distinctively unique toArabian music because of its technique of

improvisation.

1. Wazn

Means measure

Performed on the goblet drum, frame drum, andkettle drum

Only used in musical genres with a fixed rhythmic-

temporal organization including recurring measures,motifs, and pulse


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2. Iqa

The rhythmic pattern in Arabian music

Reputed to be over 100 iqa, but many of them

have fallen out of fashion and are rarely used in

performance

The greatest varieties of iqa range from 2 to 48beats

Are used in the muwashahatwhere every

syllable of the lyric must fall on beat


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Instrument of Israel

A Hebrew lyreisalso called kinnor.It is an ancientIsraelite stringed

instrument fromthe harp familyand has two

curved arms that

are connected atthe upper.


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An ancient stringed

instrument played byplucking the strings

with the fingers or a

plectrum.

Psalterion (harp)


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The shofaris a

Jewishinstrument most

often made from

a ram's horn,

though it can

also be made

from the horn of

a sheep or goat.


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Goblet

The goblet drumis a single head

membranophone

with a gobletshaped body.


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