Prosodic Rhythm in Jewish Sacred Music
Examples from the Persian-Speaking World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5260208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evan Rapport (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-102 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-9202 • E-ISSN: 1553-5630 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/amu.2016.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W2244855130 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
Musical rhythms are connected to prosodic principles in many Jewish sacred music practices. For Persian-speaking Jews of Iran and Central Asia, rhythms are especially informed by ingrained habits of interpreting Persian quantitative poetic meters, applied to both Hebrew- and Persian-language texts. For describing and analyzing Jewish sacred music in the Iranian and Central Asian traditions, the term "prosodic rhythm" usefully highlights the importance of syllable length and other rhythmic features of a text, with broader implications for the study of Jewish sacred music and music without a steady pulse in general
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Hebrew · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Persian · Poetry · Rhythm · Syllable · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Media, Communication, and Education · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |