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Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… border. He was a Chasid and a Ba'al Tefilah, one who chants when the Torah is read from and a shochet, a ritual …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… of the atmosphere of Provence. [2] Some of these sacred chants carried with them the reflection of these old … records, the only document in our possession is a volume [ Chants hébraïques: suivant le rite des Communautés … Jassé] Laroque [1816-1893], whose family still owns it. The chants there were in the purest Comtadin rite. Some fifty …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… The result of this initiative was the compendium titled Chants hebraïques suivant le rite des communautes Israelites … elements of original Jewish modes intermingled with French chants of the Middle Ages. Peculiarly enough, these Jews … local accretions (generically defined as “medieval French chants”). Musically speaking, Minhag Carpentras, as Chants …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, some with words but most without, historically … and, finally, traditional melodies of paraliturgical chants, such as Sabbath zmires (Yiddish; from the Hebrew zemiroth —chants) , that evolved in the eastern Ashkenazi communities …