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Salamone Rossi
… spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de Rossi, not much is known about … and sway to grant legitimacy to his proposed reforms of synagogue music. He wanted to introduce polyphony into the … utilized the style of polyphonic counterpoint prevalent in Italian art music as the base for these new settings. Rabbi …
Moshe Cordova
… War I. In the capital city, Cordova pursued his career as a synagogue singer and composer. Parallel to his musical … set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the Italian Synagogue in Galata. This synagogue was also known … since at least the late 1910s. It was founded by Jews of Italian origin who had broken away from the main body of the …

Singing Modernity: Synagogue Music in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Italy
… … 2 … Assimilation and its Discontents: The Italian Jewish Experience Between Inclusion and Exclusion … Assimilation and its Discontents: The Italian Jewish Experience Between Inclusion and Exclusion … … University of Toronto … … 20th (Twentieth) Century … 2008 … Synagogue … Synagogue music … Twentieth (20th) Century … …
Leo Levi
… Leo Levi was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in … interests. His plan to devote a dissertation to the Italian synagogue song was frustrated by the rise of Fascism …

Michele Bolaffi
… 19th century. His tenure as musical director of the Great Synagogue of Livorno can be considered a turning point in … development of choral and instrumental music for use in the Italian synagogue. Bolaffi held international prestige: he … death of Haydn (1809) and many other short vocal pieces. … Italian musician & composer … Michele Bolaffi …
Salomon Sulzer
… and was later appointed cantor at the Seitenstettengasse Synagogue in Vienna, where he stayed for fifty-five years. … modern cantorate. This is a result of his attempt to reform synagogue music by purifying existing melodies, and … seen in his Schir Zion , was widely adopted by the modern synagogues of the mid-nineteenth century. He published a …

La place traditionnelle du melisme dans la cantillation
… In early Christian sources and in Italian Sephardi synagogues a long melisma appears in the second to last … … Yuval Studies … … 1986 … Analysis … Church music … Synagogue … Synagogue music … Church … Sephardi music … …

La penetration de la musique savante dans les synagogues italiennes au XVIIe siecle: le cas particulier de Venise
… 1983 … 38766 … 527-535 … Milan … … 1987 … Music … Liturgy … Synagogue … Art Music … Art … Italy … Italian … Israel Adler … Gaetano Cozzi … La penetration de la musique savante dans les synagogues italiennes au XVIIe siecle: le cas particulier de …
Elohim hashivenu: A liturgical insertion for the High Holidays in Salamone Rossi's version in Italy and beyond
… Three Festivals and High Holidays, according to the minhag Italiani , also known as minhag Bnei Roma or minhag lo’azim … seven words. When exactly these verses entered the mahzor Italiani is hard to determine, but at the very latest one … is that Halegua may have served in one of the two Salonica synagogues which used the Mahzor Italiani until the 20th …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Turkish capital by wars of the 1910’s. They would gather in synagogues during evening rituals on winter Saturdays to … of “Nuestro Señor Eloheinu” was circulating within the Italian Sephardic communities as early as the beginning of … example of “Yarad el hay” recorded by Leo Levy and sung by Italian cantor Simon Sacerdote of Livorno (first 33 seconds …