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Samuel Alman

… Nisson Spivak and Solomon Sulzer. He made use of elaborate modern harmony in his arrangements, evoking the …

… there, and he became a prominent figure in the school of modern Russian composition. Krein’s early work was deeply … on Jewish music, Krein returned to composing music in the modern Russian style. One of the most noted works from this …

Gustav Mahler

… to emulate that style in his own writing while using a modernist approach. Though Mahler made several attempts at …

Mordekhai Seter

… University) from 1951 until his retirement in 1985. A modest figure, he declined any institutional role, and since … these pieces he further developed the use of the original modes that he had invented for Midnight Vigil and … Jerusalem . He created during these decades 33 diatonic modes, which served as his core pitch material for 35 of his …

Yehuda Sharett (Shertok)

… the Engel prize ) , a piece combining Jewish tradition with modern musical elements. Also known for composing poems of …

Josef Tal (Gruenthal)

… cantatas and dramas – mostly based on Biblical or modern Hebrew texts. He collaborated with librettist Israel …

Mordekhai Hershman

… Smith, Edward G. Notes to the LP Fifty minutes with Modercai Hershman , Shirim Records S-1002, published after … have become classics and are frequently performed by modern Chazanim. Eilu Devarim , Shma Koleinu and Aneinu are … in Brooklyn, N.Y., which at the time was housed in a modest-sized building; but his services attracted such …

Edward Stark

… in Anim Zmirot utilize the adonai malakh and magen avot modes. Stark’s style was heavily influenced by the classical …

Isadore Freed

… his course offerings to include a class devoted to Jewish modes. In 1958, Freed published the treatise, Harmonizing the Jewish Modes , in which he offers a systematic harmonic language by which to understand the Jewish modes as they have been treated by a variety of synagogue …

Frederick Piket

… compositions. He questioned strict adherence to synagogue modes, or nusach , and instead preferred a simple, …