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The Cantorial Fantasia Revisited: New Perspectives on an Ashkenazic Musical Genre
Based on MS sources of Maier Levi of Esslingen, Germany (1813–1874), the article…
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…
Liturgical-Musical Customs at the Dawn of a New Era: Continuity and Change in Salomon Geiger’s Divrey Kehillot
Geiger’s work testifies to the overwhelming continuity of the liturgical-musical customs…
Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, [E] 1923-33 [Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies]
Vols. 1-2, 6-10; Also in German (1-10) and Hebrew (vols. 1-5). Each volume contains…