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Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. Petersburg Conservatory where he … in Petrograd and worked extensively on a comprehensive treatise on violin playing. A small part of it was published …

Isadore Freed
… States and settled in Philadelphia , PA. Freed studied music formally at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in music at the age of 18. In 1923, Freed spent five months in … class devoted to Jewish modes. In 1958, Freed published the treatise, Harmonizing the Jewish Modes , in which he offers …

Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … established he was named the National Deputy Director of Music for Israel's Ministry of Education and Culture. He … of the Hutcheson's Literature of Piano , and his Clavier treatise 'Contemporary Piano Masterpieces,' two of Miron's …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The Jewish Music Research Centre mourns the loss of Cantor Sylvan … 1929 - January 15, 2025), a prominent scholar of Western music theory who was also a leading composer, arranger, and … Synagogue , conceived as a five-volume, twenty-book treatise on Eastern European Ashkenazic liturgical music, …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology … to translate several important Medieval Arabic music treatises. In 1930, along with fellow teachers and …
Amnon Shiloah
… of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … as well as Bible, graduating in 1951. He continued his music studies at the Jerusalem Music Academy, majoring in … where he graduated in 1963. His thesis on the medieval treatise Kamāl adab al-ghinā’ by al-Ḥasan al-Kātib was …

The Treatise on Music translated into Hebrew by Juda ben Isaac (Paris B.N. Heb. 1037, 22v-27v)
… of the article in question and its relation to medieval music theory. The process of its creation is described … 11th to the 15th century. … 2 … Yuval Studies of The Jewish Music Research Centre … Yuval Studies of The Jewish Music … Van Wasberghe … Amnon Shiloah … Bathja [Batya] Bayer … The Treatise on Music translated into Hebrew by Juda ben Isaac …

The Hebrew Version of Abu l-Salt's Treatise on Music
… Full text of Abu L-Salt's(1067-1134) Treatise of music, with a translation from the Hebrew … critical notes. … 1 … 1 … 2 … Yuval Studies of The Jewish Music Research Centre … Yuval Studies of The Jewish Music …

A Jewish Sufi on the Influence of Music
… The Judeo- Arabic treatise “Al Murhid ila al- tafarrud” includes fragments of musical scores. The entire piece, dated here to the 14th … Islamic Sufism and mystical speculations. Sufi ideas about music influenced Jewish- Egyptian Pietists especially during …

Assessing Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Legacy
… Legacy: Eighty Years after the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development The year 2009 marks the … of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s foundational book Jewish Music in its Historical Development, which in many ways … (if sometimes obscured) musical tradition. While Idelsohn’s treatise was in one sense a single voice among many, it …