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Orality as Religious Ideal: The Music of East-European Jewish Prayer
… as being corrupt. As a consequence of this attitude, great compositions of music - such as those of Beethoven - …
The Priestly Blessing in the Ashkenazi Synagogue: Ritual and Chant
… have developed the richest variety of chants, melodies and compositions for the PB. … Tradition … 9593 … Ashkenazi … …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… German cantors, here and there, notating their own compositions had little effect on the basic oral nature of …
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
… parts and deserve to be considered accomplished and artful compositions in a very specific style. The category of …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… (1951-2011) was an American Jewish singer-songwriter, whose compositions played an important role in dramatically … more accessible, communal modes of prayer. Friedman’s early compositions were designed to be accompanied by simple … published in the complete anthology of Debbie Friedman’s compositions. [10] The setting consists of three sections, …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… in the twentieth century. This is not a book of original compositions – most of the songs in it are listed as “folk …
Moritz Rosenhaupt
… (1841-1900). The other two volumes contain entries, both compositions and arrangements of the compositions of others, by Cantor Fraenkel. These constitute … the Rare Book Room'. Besides these published and manuscript compositions, Theodore Fränkel (1921) reports on a large …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… figure or musical germ [sic!] may be found also in other compositions of various lands and ages. In fact, the … utilized popular tunes of Bohemia as themes to his larger compositions. The most striking thing is that there is more … not locate thus far a version of this composition. Belzer’s compositions remained for the most part in manuscripts. One …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… prayers. Early evidence for this phenomenon is found in the compositions of Rabbi Israel Najara (1555-1625), where we … cycle). Apparently, most of the baqqashot arrangements are compositions that were adopted in the recent past and …
Sher
… two dances, and each one of them created many distinct compositions... In Yiddish literature the ‘kozatz’keh’ is …