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Chopin's controversial mazurka op. 17, no. 4
Analysis of the musical texture of the mazurka op. 17, no. 4 shows the use of material…

Italian Jewish musicians in Western musical tradition. II
Abramo Basevi (1818-1885) was a music critic and composer. His book 'Studio sulle opera…

Italian Jewish musicians in Western musical tradition
Giovanni Maria, an excellent flutist, was part of a small group of Jewish musicians in…

Maurice Ravel's accompaniment to three Hebrew melodies: Archaic or ultra-modern?
Analysis of Ravel's Mejerke mein Suhn (published as 'Chanson Hebraique' in Chants…

Klezmer music in America: revival and beyond
Klezmer music has experienced changing musical content and social function since the…

Alexander Krein's Kaddish, op.23,manuscript by the Soviet Jewish coposer, lost since the Nazi era.
Aleksander Krejn (1883-1951), a founder of the Jewish national school in Russia, wrote “…

Change and Ideology: the Ethnomusicology of Turkish Jewry
Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, U. of Indiana. The relationship of music to…

Two Treatises on the Accentuation of the Old Testament (2 vols. in 1)
repr. of A treatise on the Accentuation...1881

Masorah
A comprehensive survey of the Masorah, its components and their development, its history…