The Nusah or style of the Spanish and Portuguese liturgical tradition may be characterised as a recitative transmitted over the centuries as an oral tradition by each generation's Hazzan to his successor.
Unlike the eastern Sephardi traditions which are based on the complex system of Maqamim, the Spanish and Portuguese rite utilises a fixed system of non-metrical but highly defined melodic patterns.
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