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Chasidic in America
… Olshanetsky , the composer who is credited with the music of The Cantor’s Son . This virtuosic, wordless song … life, which fluctuated between the cantorial world of the synagogue and the popular music stage. Oysher’s career has … was to be made by singing outside the confines of the synagogue, and began performing at popular music venues or …
Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… mibeit Abba", produced by Renanot : Institute for Jewish music. CD1703 in the National Sound Archive. Score example … p. 33. … German-speaking Jews often used melodies from synagogue services for settings of Shir hama’alot [The song … of temporal melodies brought the festive atmosphere of the synagogue service into the home, and elevated the mealtime …

Heinrich Schalit : the man and his music
… California … Schalit … … composer … 1979 … Composers … Synagogue music … מלחינים … מוסיקה לבית הכנסת … Michael Schalit … Heinrich Schalit : the man and his music …

Shir HaKavod
… Shabbath prayers, after the Mussaf service. In some Israeli synagogues the prayer is moved to an earlier part of the … the congregation reads the entire text together. In synagogues where the Piyyut is sung in a responsorial … chant it after the Kiddush, while having a snack in the synagogue. Melodies This Piyyut has a few melodies …
Atah Ehad
… service [1] (Heb. מנחה ) for the Sabbath sung in Ashkenazi synagogues in Israel: אַתָּה אֶחָד וְשִׁמְךָ אֶחָד וּמִי … see below. Although Idelsohn can be credited as the first musician to introduce this melody to the Zionist repertory … , Berlin, 1935. [7] Abraham Wolf Binder, 'The Music of the Synagogue: An Historical Survey' in Studies in Jewish …

Unataneh Tokef
… influences and that Albalak should imagine himself in a synagogue when performing it. The Film also includes the … Liturgy … Yom Kippur War … Contemporary Israeli Music … Israeli composers … Unetaneh Tokef … Unataneh Tokef …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… on the basis of German aesthetics, in this case poetic and musical. Dort wo die Zeder also shows how the Zionist … and composer Asher Perlzweig (1870-1942) of the Vine Court Synagogue in the East End of London includes under the music … in the second phrase may have originated in the mystical synagogue song announcing the Sabbath, its aesthetics also …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… The beautiful Dutch synagogue is also known by its Ladino name, Esnoga, and is … community—living in the outskirts of the city. The Synagogue's History In 1665, the Sephardic community decided … founders were the “Marranos and Anusim, who brought music with them from the Catholic church.” [1] He offers the …

Music in Jewish History and Culture
… A survey of Jewish music from Biblical times to the present that compiles a … in-depth insights into the social context in which the music is created, performed, judged and consumed. … 1 … … … Bible … Hebrew cantillation … Sephardi music … Islam … Synagogue music … Holocaust music … Israeli Music … Yiddish …
Singing in the Dark
… Film include footage shot in the historic Levetzow Synagogue in Berlin that was razed shortly thereafter. … … 1956 … Holocaust … Cantor … Cantorial music … Oysher, Moyshe … Levetzow Synagogue … American … New York City … Ashkenazi … Singing …