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The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… the outlines of a significant but forgotten chapter in synagogue chant. The aspect of cantorial music here … of improvising traditional tunes. The genuine homophony of synagogue chant was challenged by environmental influences … compositions in a very specific style. The category of synagogue song we shall illustrate and analyse may be called …
Bernardo Feuer
… Feuer was a child. His father worked as the caretaker of a synagogue and the family had four children: Alter, Miriam, … Feuer formed a liturgical choir in the Dr. Max Nordau synagogue. In 1937, he founded another choir, which he named … Schwartz. The Hazormir choir repertoire was not exclusively synagogue material and included arrangements of Jewish folk …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… enormous effort of transmission on a voluntary basis, in synagogues and community centers throughout Israel, …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… of commerce, libraries, schools, as well as over thirty synagogues, including the Chief Rabbinate. 1 Map displaying …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… Coopersmith, Songs of My People (Chicago: The Anshe Emet synagogue, 1937). In spite of Coopersmith’s notation with a … publication, for he was the cantor at the Reconstructionist synagogue which Eisenstein’s father founded in New York … The score reveals that Abileah, who was a well-versed synagogue composer and pianist, was inspired by the …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… her music into the mainstream of Jewish life and into their synagogues, where many worshippers were seeking more … of this globalized musical language into liberal American synagogues. By bringing this widespread melodic and harmonic … ) enabled her to combine a sense of dramatic renewal in synagogue music, while maintaining a fine thread of …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… recalls the close association between Temple sacrifices and synagogue prayers. Since the loss of the Temple, prayer has … 29 th of Elul, we rise early before daybreak [go to synagogue], recite the petihah (“opening”) ‘Nora … of a visit by the late Rabbi Ovadiyah Yossef to the Shauli Synagogue in Ashdod. Toledano is accompanied by the …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Cohon, Baruch Joseph. 1950. “The Structure of the Synagogue Prayer-Chant.” Journal of the American … 2002. The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue . Vol. 1, Introduction: History and Definition . …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into modern synagogue liturgical practice. As the first published … his position as music director of the Stephen S. Wise Free Synagogue in New York City. Rabbi Wise, an outspoken pioneer … bands and the melody has found new adaptations into synagogue liturgy. [10] Though one might have expected to …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… was one of the major codifiers of the South German synagogue liturgy in musical notation and yet his name does … Isaac Lachmann as the most important figures of the German synagogue tradition of the late nineteenth century. Not much … his work has remained (see below). A photo of the burning synagogue of Speyer, left, as photographed on the night of …