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Collectanea Concerning Music in the Hebrew Manuscript London, British Library, Or. 10878 (Hebrew)
… Three fragments of musical theory and of speculations on music, collected by an anonymous Jewish scribe (probably Northern Italy, 15th century), are … text has been identified as an abbreviated version (by a Jewish musician from Catalonia?) of the beginning of the …

The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… Since the end of the 15th century we find a long series of Jewish texts containing a new evaluation of music as a means of power. This attitude emerges among Italian Jewish authors and seems to be influenced by parallel views …

Introduction to Idelsohn’s Autobiographical Sketches
… in Die Chasanim Welt , the journal of the organization of Jewish cantors in Poland; the second, in English, was printed half a year later in Jacob Beiml's Jewish Music Journal (New York). … 9593 … Idelsohn A.Z. … …

The Announcement of the Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem by A.Z. Idelsohn and S.Z. Rivlin in 1910
… ways, to institutionalize the 'fostering and study of Jewish music.' Roughly parallel, in time and place, were certain … … 20th (Twentieth) Century … 9434 … Institution … Jewish music … Study … Israel … Idelsohn A.Z. … Idelsohn … …

Idelsohn: The Founder and Builder of the Science of Jewish Music – A Creator of Jewish Song
… reestablishing a 'favourable attitude towards traditional Jewish observances, the Hebrew language, and the idea Of Jewish peoplehood' in American Reform congregations, and was … by his wife's great interest in traditional Jewish music. Her efforts to educate the Jewish public in the value …

An Institute of Jewish Music in Jerusalem
… ' … We hereby appeal to all Jewish musicians and singers in Jerusalem and in Erez Israel, to … likewise the Jews of Persia and Babylonia, and to all the Jewish musicians and cantors in the entire world, from the …

A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… of the twentieth century, the study and research of Jewish music was motivated by the belief that the music of biblical times survived in the living traditions of Jewish communities. It was also believed that with the …

Idelsohn’s Scholarly and Literary Publications: An Annotated Bibliography
… Idelsohn was regarded by many as the savant and saviour of Jewish music. In 1932 on the double occasion of his fiftieth … A.Z. … Idelsohn … Bibliography … Annotated bibliography … Jewish music … Jewish music research … Idelsohn’s Scholarly …

Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi - Penitential Hymn under Changing Environmental Conditions
… early twenties, he confronted different local variants of Jewish Sephardi melodies. He confined himself to very few, … upon the comparison of tunes influenced by different music cultures. Idelsohn did not content himself with the … His line has recently been taken up by several students of Jewish music tradition. We are now in a better position than …

The Archives of the World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940, at the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem
… The musicological activities in Israel prior to statehood are … in Jerusalem institutional tools for the advancement of Jewish music research: Idelsohn's attempt to establish in … the State of Israel, which brought to existence in 1964 the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of …