Passport to Jewish music : its history, traditions, and culture
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Passport to Jewish music : its history, traditions, and culture
（Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 33）
Greenwood Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Documenting the Heritage 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
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