Music in Jewish history and culture /
"Music in Jewish History and Culture surveys the broad sweep of music among Jews of widely diverse communities from Biblical times to the modern day. Each chapter focuses on a different Jewish cultural epoch and, against the background of its principal historical and cultural traits, explores t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sterling Heights, Michigan :
Harmonie Park Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music ;
no. 47. |
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Table of Contents:
- Background and orientation
- Music in the Bible
- The Greco-Roman world
- Cantillation
- Jewish music in the world of medieval Islam
- Secular music of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages
- Synagogue music from the destruction of the temple to 1800
- The cantor of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Music of the Yiddish-speaking world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Secular Jewish musicians of modern Europe
- The history and development of Jewish liturgical music in America
- Secular Jewish music and musicians in North America
- Music of the Holocaust
- Creation of a national music prior to Israeli statehood
- Music in modern Israel.