Nigunim
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91002313
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh91002313#concept
Variants
- Niggunim
- Nusaḥ
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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Nigunim [SR] 1983.
- 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
- 1991-05-08: new
- 2011-02-02: revised
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