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Songs of Grief and Hope: Ancient Western-Sephardi Melodies of Qinot for the Ninth of Av
… qinot of the Sephardi communities of the Western Hemisphere. Perhaps the intense attachment of the founding fathers …
The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… threefold priestly blessing (henceforth PB). The ceremony whereby the kohanim stand barefoot in front of the ark …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… the later eighteenth century of individual German cantors, here and there, notating their own compositions had little effect on … synagogue chant. However, starting in the 1830s and 1840s, there occurred in Germany a serious weakening of the oral …
Jewish Singing and Boxing in Georgian England
… 3798 items and 4251 melodic incipits there is no question that for the first time ever the grounds …
To Please Both the Ear and the Eye: Moses Mendelssohn, Equal Temperament and the Delian Problem
… finally giving the credit to his friend Mendelssohn. Today there is no doubt that the attribution to Mendelssohn is the …
The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation — a Reexamination
… the lexical text U.3011 (still unpublished at that time), where they represented a paradigmatic sequence of strings. In the Key-Number Table, therefore, each pairing of strings denotes “something,” but … by Curt Sachs in 1923 had not been a notation at all (see here Appendix A, Excursus 1). … 9434 … Mesopotamian … Music …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… but could also cross barriers to reach transcendental spheres. Music is a language understood by all beings, gods as …
The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
… but its identification has been disputed for many years. There is some evidence that the balaĝ was a stringed …
Illusions of Grandeur: The Instruments of Daniel 3 Reconsidered
… While these assumptions await future investigation, my hope here is primarily to help the reader hear Nebuchadnezzar’s …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… Over the past sixty or so years, there has been an increasing awareness of archaic Athens’ …