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Jacob Beimel
Born in Parichi, Belarus. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1915. Worked as cantor and conductor…
Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…
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…
A selection of Hebrew melodies, ancient and modern
Songs for 1-3 voices with piano or 4 voices unaccompanied. Music by Isaac Nathan, words…
Parallels Between the Old–French and the Jewish Song
A somewhat controversial article in which Idelsohn tries to show traces of Jewish music…
The Mogen Ovos Mode: a Study in Folklore
Singing the prayer magen avot, the abbreviated repetition of Sabbath-eve amidah, is an…
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…