URI(s)
Form
- Nigunim
Variants
- Niggunim
- Nusaḥ
Broader Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Web. 3(Nigunim; also Niggunim)
- found: New Grove(Niggunim)
- found: Encyc. Judaica:v. 7, p. 1424 (Niggunim)
- found: New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Jan. 7, 2011:Nigun (In the liturgical music of the Ashkenazi Jews, an early form of centonized chant, also known as nusaḥ. Among the East European Ḥasidic Jews, the term refers to a type of vocal music, often sung to nonsense syllables and accompanied by dancing; Jewish music/Liturgical and paraliturgical/Karaite (The nigunim can be loosely defined as modes, although there is no strict modal system in Karaite cantillation))
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Change Notes
- 2014-12-10: new
- 2015-02-13: revised
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