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The music is also an amalgam, taking in the influence of Jewish cantillation, traditional choral styles, gospel, mariachi, pop, blues and 12-tone music.

He crooned his way through such passages in Ligeti’s Sonata for Solo Cello with a moaning, longing sound on the distinctive pizzicato-glissando sighs and sweet cantillation reminiscent of folk music.

Thus in the cantillations of the old-time hula we find a ready-made anthology that includes every species of composition in the whole range of Hawaiian poetry.

They guide the modulated flow of the voice in cantillation, thus serving, in a certain sense, as musical notes.

It is at once too long and too monotonous, but I dare say that if one could follow the words of the accompanying songs, or cantillations, the result might be more entertaining.