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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…
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…
Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 07[E]: Der traditionellen Gesaenge der sueddeutschen Juden [The Traditional Song of the South German Jews]
Also exists in German. The volume... 'contains the traditional songs of the German Jews…
Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 07[G]: Der traditionellen Gesaenge der sueddeutschen Juden
Also exists in English. The volume... 'contains the traditional songs of the German Jews…
The Kol Nidre Tune
1931-2 This is one of Idelsohn's most intriguing articles; it is a study in which his…
Maier Levi of Esslingen, Germany : a small town hazzan in the time of the emancipation and his cantorial compendium
Ph.D dissertation from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Includes music with words in…
Kol Rinah U’Tfillah
A complete collection of music for Shabbat and Festivals written for one to two voices.…