Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
Article
The rediscovery of biblical chant : "The Music of the Bible Revealed" by Suzanne Haik-Vantoura
Author
Haik-Vantoura, Suzanne: "La musique de la Bible révélée; une notation millenaire décryptée" (review)
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Articles in Journals
Year:
1991-1992
Prophecy and Temple music : I Chron. 25:1-7
Miriam the musician
Mother to muse : an archaeomusicological study of women’s performance in ancient Israel
Recycling Biblical Figures; Papers Read at a NOSTER Colloquium in Amsterdam, May 1997. Ed. by Athalya Brenner & Jan Willem van Henten. Leiden: Deo, 1999
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Articles in Books
Year:
1999
La musique de la Bible revelee
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An attempt to reconstruct the music to which the bible was sung (Pentateuch, Psalms...) according to the tropes (Te'amim) and their graphic shapes.
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Books
Year:
1978
Biblical chant
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
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Articles in Books
Year:
1971
Discovering Jewish Music
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Overview of the history of Jewish music for the intelligent lay reader as well as more advanced students of Jewish music. Several chapters discuss popular music in Israel and America. Contains some 175 musical examples, and an accompanying CD with 65 tracks. However, it is an uneven catalogue of data from Biblical times to contemporary Israeli popular music lacking criticism or contextualization.
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Books
Year:
2003
Masorah
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A comprehensive survey of the Masorah, its components and their development, its history, writers and transmitters, traditions, systems, and symbols.
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Articles in Books
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1971, 1982
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
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- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
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