… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public figure, being a … various initiatives aimed at establishing schools for the cantorial arts. He collaborated with the distinguished …

… choir in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk) to receive cantorial training and to sing as a soloist in his choir. … successful debut in Yekaterinoslav, and his reputation as a cantorial prodigy spread quickly. That spring, Sholom … and C. Once in New York, Mr. Wolf began to manage Sholom's musical career, setting up engagements in a number of …

… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … route and set the melody in the major scale. In Ashkenazi cantorial music, the major scale and its derivatives are …

… century and relied instead on oral transmission of their musical traditions. [15]  The only implicit written records … melodies, first on separate music sheets and then in cantorial compendia (Goldberg 2002). We have located in … piyyut Tummat ẓurim  and its melody, as it appears in the cantorial compendia of Maier Levi of Esslingen (1818–1874; …

… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … Shofet kol ha’aretz.” This is the earliest mention of the music of our poem, and obviously it indicates that in the … by following the singer in his rhythmically flexible cantorial melodic movements. A Yemenite version Cantor David …

… appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one appeared … Palestine.  My father Avram Zvi Idelsohn went to him for cantorial lessons when he was 17 and Hillel chose him as a … out his pencil and recorded close to 5000 folk songs and cantorial melodies. These were published in 10 volumes known …

… th centuries and developed under Turkish-Ottoman and Arabic musical influences.   Contents The tradition of … life-cycle Summary Bibliography   The Jerusalem-Sephardic cantorial and piyyut tradition The roots of the piyyutim … This singing is part of the liturgical and para-liturgical musical tradition of communities that descended from Jews …

… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … liturgical melodies in the modern era. Gershon Efros in his Cantorial Anthology (vol. V, p. 54) replicates Sulzer’s …