1.1 Types of PLSs in the 1954 Miṣḥaf 29
2.1 The poets of the 1954 Miṣḥaf 44
2.2 The rhyming scheme in Najarah’s Yihyu Kemots 73
2.3 The rhyming scheme in ’al-Ḥakham’s Barukh ’El Ḥay (the first three stanzas) 79
3.1 The increase in the number of life-cycle songs in the two Mṣāḥif 107
3.2 The Sabbath of Shirah: identical and different PLSs in the two Mṣāḥif 113
3.3 The increase in the number of optional PLSs 115
3.4 The ‘shifting songs’ from the 1906 Miṣḥaf to the 1954 Miṣḥaf 116
3.5 The polythematic structure in Merim Lero’shi 132
4.1 Musical information in the headings of the PLSs: the 1906 Miṣḥaf 139
4.2 Musical information in the headings of the PLSs: the 1954 Miṣḥaf 142
4.3 The metric pattern of Shema‘ Na’ ’Aḥi and Yah ’Eloha Malkhut ‘Alam (the first line) 150
4.4 The rhyming scheme in Shema‘ Na’ ’Aḥi (the first three stanzas) 151
4.5 The rhyming scheme in Yah ’Eloha Malkhut ‘Alam 151
4.6 The metric pattern of ‘Ad ’Anah Yonah and of ‘Uzi ’Eleikha ’Eshmorah (the first line) 153
4.7 Syllables per line in ‘Ad ’Anah Yonah and in ‘Uzi ’Eleikha ’Eshmorah (the first stanza) 154
4.8 The rhyming scheme in ‘Ad ’Anah Yonah (the first four stanzas) 155
4.9 The rhyming scheme in ‘Uzi ’Eleikha ’Eshmorah (the first four stanzas) 155
4.10 The metric pattern of ‘Ovdey Ha’el Be’emunah and ‘Ezer Mitsaray (the first line) 156
4.11 The rhyming scheme in ‘Ovdey Ha’el Be’emunah (the first three stanzas and refrain) 157
4.12 The rhyming scheme in ‘Ezer Mitsaray (the first three stanzas and refrain) 157
4.13 Maqām Ḥusaynī on A and its Ajnās 162
4.14 The melodic phrases and their location in Yihyu Kemots (the first stanza) 165
4.15 The melodic phrases and their location in Barukh ’El Ḥay (the first stanza) 168
4.16 The metric pattern and the melodic rhythm in Yihyu Kemots (the first line) 170
4.17 The metric pattern and the melodic rhythm in Barukh ’El Ḥay (the first line) 171
4.18 Ptiḥot and their Maqāmāt in the two Mṣāḥif 175
4.19 The Maqāmāt presented in the Ptiḥot of both Mṣāḥif 181
A1.1 The 1906 Miṣḥaf 197
A1.2 The 1954 Miṣḥaf 200