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Hebrew Notated Manuscript Sources up to Circa 1840: A Descriptive and Thematic Catalogue with a Checklist of Printed Sources
Analytical catalogue of all musical notations of JM (mostly liturgical) from the…
Voices in the sanctuary: Musical Practices of the American Synagogue
The system that defines the musical and liturgical practices of the Ashkenazi synagogue…
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Prior to the advent of modernity, Ashkenazi hazzanim acquired their cantorial skills by…
Jewish Liturgical Music in the Wake of Nineteenth-Century Reform
The essay presents a fresh overview of the changes and continuities in Nineteenth-…
Hazzan and Qahal: Responsive Chant in Minhag Ashkenaz
Drawing upon textual references in minhag books, siddurim and mahzorim, the article…
Neglected sources for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Synagogue Music: The Prefaces to Louis Lewandowski's Kol Rinnah U't'fillah and Todah W'simrah. Annotated Translations
The core of the article is a translation from the German of Lewandowski’s prefaces to…
Hamnazeach: Schule des israelitischen Cantors
4 volumes of liturgical music for every occasion. Contents: I : Wochentagsgebete und…
The Sacred Bridge: the Interdependence of Liturgy and Music in Synagogue and Church during the First Millennium
An attempt to deal with the difficult questions of the relationship of synagogue liturgy…
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…