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Joseph Singer
… in an attempt to systemize the traditional prayer modes. Sources: Nulman, Macy. 'Singer, Joseph.' Concise …
Mordekhai Seter
… University) from 1951 until his retirement in 1985. A modest figure, he declined any institutional role, and since … these pieces he further developed the use of the original modes that he had invented for Midnight Vigil and … Jerusalem . He created during these decades 33 diatonic modes, which served as his core pitch material for 35 of his …
Mordekhai Hershman
… in Brooklyn, N.Y., which at the time was housed in a modest-sized building; but his services attracted such …
Edward Stark
… in Anim Zmirot utilize the adonai malakh and magen avot modes. Stark’s style was heavily influenced by the classical …
Isadore Freed
… his course offerings to include a class devoted to Jewish modes. In 1958, Freed published the treatise, Harmonizing the Jewish Modes , in which he offers a systematic harmonic language by which to understand the Jewish modes as they have been treated by a variety of synagogue …
Frederick Piket
… compositions. He questioned strict adherence to synagogue modes, or nusach , and instead preferred a simple, …
Mordekhai Zeira
… feeling of the new Israeli musical idiom, based on modes and syncopation, to which he was introduced during his …
Alexander Uria Boscovich
… with Mediterranean and specifically Mizrahi elements—modes, forms, textures, rhythms, and orchestration such as … and certain percussions. Among the famous pieces of his modest oeuvre are his influential Semitic Suite (piano; also …
Deborah Lynn "Debbie" Friedman
… many worshippers were seeking more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed …
Yardena Alotin
… performed piano pieces, such as Suite (piano, 1974), her modest oeuvre also includes choir works such as Yefei Nof …