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Judit Frigyesi
… Judit Niran Frigyesi is a musicologist, ethnomusicologist, teacher and poet. She … cultures (with expertise in the music of Béla Bartók and Ashkenazic prayer chant). Her archive is the largest … recorded in East Europe and the largest archive of the liturgical music of the Hungarian Jews. She is active as a …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the loss of Cantor Sylvan … as a five-volume, twenty-book treatise on Eastern European Ashkenazic liturgical music, repertoire, and varying traditions. Three …
Eric Werner
… Born in Ludenberg (near Vienna ). Studied music and religion in several cities in Europe, receiving … as comparative Jewish-Christian music, Jewish composers, Ashkenazi liturgy, and more. His compositions include mainly Jewish liturgical works, in addition to choral compositions, songs, …
Geoffrey Goldberg
… Ph.D., Department of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation: … (2001). Research interests: Historical development of Ashkenazi Liturgical Music; the influence of minhag in the development …
Amalia Kedem
… Amalia Kedem is the Music Curator and an archivist of the music collection at … research on contemporary practices of cantillation (MA) and liturgical music (PhD) and the ways in which they express Israeli and Ashkenazi identity. She taught Jewish music at the Academy …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … Danube, the site of an important Jewish community, to an Ashkenazi family. As he relates in a 2006 interview with … transcriptions of his Jewish field recordings that included liturgical music and songs for the year and life cycles …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
… Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important melodies by inserting new and … The author describes the structure of the fantasia as a musical form and the compositional techniques involved in …
Tonality and Motivic Interrelationships in the Performance Practice of Nusach
… studies in which the application of concepts and tools of music theory and analysis of Ashkenazi liturgical music may apply to the performance practice of …
Toward A Clearer Definition of the Magen Avot Mode
… Primarily motivated by historical and comparative musicology, past studies of Ashkenazi prayer modes were affected by a pre conceived … they are incorporated, and their textual connection and liturgical function. … 3 … Musica Judaica … Musica Judaica … …
Voices in the sanctuary: Musical Practices of the American Synagogue
… The system that defines the musical and liturgical practices of the Ashkenazi synagogue also delineates various degrees of …