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A Recovered Voice from the Past
… in the Jewish past. A case in point is the scholar and musician Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, the founding father of modern … the spoken language in opposition to the orphanage of the Ashkenazi community run by the Haredi community where … conductor, composer of and instructor in Jewish liturgical music. Dymont was born in Kovno, Lithuania (then …
Mapping of German Liturgical Music
… The Jewish Music Research Centre is proud to present a map of all known and available printed sources of liturgical music form the German-speaking Jewish world. This … by Noam Peleg and Edwin Seroussi . … Sources and remarks … Ashkenazi liturgical music … German music … Jewish Liturgy … …
Léibele Schwartz
… on March 22, 1928 as Yehudah Leib Kirzner. He began his music studies as a child with his father, Yaakov, who was a … (from the prayer ‘Omnam ken,’ according to the Polish liturgical tradition) and ‘Labrit habet’ (from the piyyut … Jewish liturgical music, Hasidic songs and songs from the Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions (see Discography below ). …
Pinchas Borenstein
… From a young age, Borenstein demonstrated a passion for music. As a child, he sang in a synagogue choir in Warsaw. … … Cantors - Hazzanim … Poland … American cantors … Opera … Ashkenazi liturgical music … Yiddish songs … Pinchas Borenstein …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… in parallel columns in English, French and German in Musica Hebraica (1-2 [1938]: 18-20), the very short-lived … citizens, to align themselves within the rigid Sephardic/Ashkenazi binary. The only document we possess for the Comtadin liturgical music tradition, the Chants hébraïques: suivant …
Haim Louk
… curriculum encompassed Talmudic studies, piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poetry), traditional chanting of Psalms, and … charismatic teacher who greatly influenced Louk's musical path. At the age of 10, Louk met Rabbi David … in London (Schneider's Yeshiva), where he was introduced to Ashkenazi cantorial traditions and acquired knowledge of …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… led since antiquity to the development of a self-contained liturgical poetic genre, the reshut . ( Granat 2016 ) … when compared to the predominantly canonical Sephardic and Ashkenazi ones in all their variants. Although aligned … unique texts such as the selection of Psalm verses whose music is discussed below. The memory of the melodies and …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … among the different regions inhabited by eastern Ashkenazim, which since the seventeenth century had been … example 11 below) is sung today to the words of the Sabbath liturgical chant “Lekha Dodi Likrat Kalah” (“Come Out My …