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The purpose of this book is to present a survey of Jewish music to illuminate its special role as a mirror of history, tradition, and cultural heritage. The 27 topical chapters have been placed within a modified chronological perspective to present a historic picture of virtually every important development in Jewish music. The book represents a culmination of several decades of the author's dedicated labor and scholarly study in this field.
Table of Contents
A Duty of Preservation and Continuity: Collectors and Collections of Jewish Music in America
Abraham Z. Idelsohn and Gershon Ephros: Creative Connection
Builders of Sacred Bridges: Scholars and Studies in Jewish Music
Bible, Liturgy, and the Cantorial Art
Jewish Music and Biblical Heritage
An Historical and Bibliographical Perspective on Jewish Liturgical Music in the Settled Areas of Eastern Europe to 1900
The Golden Age of the Cantorial Art
Melodies of Prayer: The Jewish Liturgical Calendar
The Musical Heritage of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry
Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs
Three Important Collections of Sephardic Music
Sephardic Music Conference in Jerusalem
Sephardic Traditions and Mediterranean Styles
The Music of Oriental Jewry
Music of Mysticism and Piety
The Mystics: Poet-Bards of the Liturgy
The Music of Hasidism: Melodies of Spiritual Ecstasy
Collections of Hasidic Music
The Yiddish Musical World of Eastern Europe
Music and Yiddish: Folksong Heritage
Yiddish Musical Theater: Its Origins in Europe
Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
The Holocaust Era
The Musical Legacy of the Holocaust
America
Three Hundred Years of Jewish Music in America
Music of Zion and Israel
Hope and the Man: Hatikvah and Naphtali Herz Imber
Song and the Modern Return to Zion
The Inspiration of Israeli Composers
Musical Festivities in Israel
Composers and Compositions
Reflections on Creativity and Heritage: [Salamone Rossi and His Era
Meyerbeer, Halevy, Offenbach: The 19th Century
Arnold Schoenberg: A 20th-Century Man
Bloch, Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco
An Emigre Sampler: Toch, Zeisl, Wolpe, Weill
Leonard Bernstein
Commissioning of Jewish Music
Some Thoughts on American Popular Song Writers: Berlin, Kern, Gershwin, Arlen]
Scripture as Creative Inspiration
Women
Miriam's Sisters: Jewish Women and Liturgical Music
Afterword
Index
Product details
Published | 30 Jun 1994 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 368 |
ISBN | 9780313280351 |
Imprint | Praeger |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 mm |
Series | Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |