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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 …
The Magical and Theurgic Interpretation of Music in Jewish Sources from the Renaissance to Hassidism (Hebrew)
… long series of Jewish texts containing a new evaluation of music as a means of power. This attitude emerges among … Writers like Johanan Allemanno and Isaac Abrabanel describe music in magical terms: by singing and playing one can … … 23257 … Music history … Kabbalah … Jewish texts … Music theory … Power of Music … Renaissance … Hassidim … Theurgic …
To Please Both the Ear and the Eye: Moses Mendelssohn, Equal Temperament and the Delian Problem
… … Octave division … Tuning systems … Mendelssohn … Music theory … Music history … To Please Both the Ear and the Eye: Moses …
The Mesopotamian Theory of Music and the Ugarit Notation — a Reexamination
… At the present writing, research on the Mesopotamian theory of music has already been going on for more than fifteen years. … (see here Appendix A, Excursus 1). … 9434 … Mesopotamian … Music theory … Notation … Ugarit … Ancient … The …
Mesopotamian Music Theory Since 1977
… in this volume, discusses the first five Mesopotamian music theory texts that had been published by 1977, including the … impact on our understanding of ancient Near Eastern music theory and practice. I discussed the first five …
Soothing Lyres and epôidai: Music Therapy and the Cases of Orpheus, Empedocles and David
… The psychagogic efficacy of music, namely its power to act on the soul in such a way as … in ancient Greek thought on a likeness between soul and musical harmony. This idea involves also a “harmonious” … … Ancient music … Ancient … Greek … Ancient Greece … Music theory … Aristotle … Philosophy … Music therapy … Soothing …
Traces of Jewish Musicians in the Writings of Lomazzo
… The discovery of traces of Jewish musicians in Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte Della Pittura … would no doubt be of interest to historians of Jewish music as well as to art historians in general. Giovanni … most exhaustive work of its kind. In studying Lomazzo’s theory of art we often have the feeling that he is relying …
Silvia Glocer
… Silvia Glocer is a Professor of Music at the University of Buenos Aires, in the faculty of … arts, where she also received her doctorate in History and Theory of the Arts. For her doctoral thesis, she did research on Jewish musicians who had been exiled to Argentina during the Nazi …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… and below each word. However, the chant also has clear musical features, with a variety of scales, motives, … In the present paper, I will provide a new perspective on musical features of Jewish cantillation in the Eastern … cantillation—in the context of prior work in music theory and future work in the study of Jewish music. The …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does not appear … by the archive of the city of Speyer, informs us that his music collection was destroyed during the conflagration. … Encyclopedia ) the “choir leader Benz,” who taught him theory and counterpoint. In 1881 Rosenhaupt succeeded the …