Haik-Vantoura, Suzanne: "La musique de la Bible révélée; une notation millenaire décryptée" (review)
Recycling Biblical Figures; Papers Read at a NOSTER Colloquium in Amsterdam, May 1997. Ed. by Athalya Brenner & Jan Willem van Henten. Leiden: Deo, 1999
An attempt to reconstruct the music to which the bible was sung (Pentateuch, Psalms...) according to the tropes (Te'amim) and their graphic shapes.
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.
A comprehensive survey of the Masorah, its components and their development, its history, writers and transmitters, traditions, systems, and symbols.