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The Cantorial Fantasia Revisited: New Perspectives on an Ashkenazic Musical Genre
Based on MS sources of Maier Levi of Esslingen, Germany (1813–1874), the article…
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Prior to the advent of modernity, Ashkenazi hazzanim acquired their cantorial skills by…
Jewish Liturgical Music in the Wake of Nineteenth-Century Reform
The essay presents a fresh overview of the changes and continuities in Nineteenth-…
Hazzan and Qahal: Responsive Chant in Minhag Ashkenaz
Drawing upon textual references in minhag books, siddurim and mahzorim, the article…
Neglected sources for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Synagogue Music: The Prefaces to Louis Lewandowski's Kol Rinnah U't'fillah and Todah W'simrah. Annotated Translations
The core of the article is a translation from the German of Lewandowski’s prefaces to…
Liturgical-Musical Customs at the Dawn of a New Era: Continuity and Change in Salomon Geiger’s Divrey Kehillot
Geiger’s work testifies to the overwhelming continuity of the liturgical-musical customs…
Selected texts with translations
Translations into English, together with annotations, of the Hebrew pizmon texts.…
Der Sinn des Sinnlosen in der Interpolation sakraler Gesaenge
repr. in Migrations and Mutations ...pp.106-14
Jüdische Musik
Same text as in the first edition of MGG (vol. 7 [1958]) with additions by Joachim …