Author : Abraham Zebi Idelsohn
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486271477
In this landmark of musical scholarship, the leading 20th-century authority on Jewish music describes and analyzes its elements and characteristics, and chronicles its development from the earliest appearance of Semitic song 2000 years ago to the early 20th century. Liberally illustrating every type of music discussed, the book examines the music as a tonal expression of Judaism, Jewish life and the spiritual aspects of Jewish culture.
Author : Marsha Bryan Edelman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780827610279
Author : Amnon Shiloah
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814322352
Shiloah (musicology, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem ) discusses the manner in which the 2,000-year-old Jewish musical heritage meshes with the complex web of Jewish history by way of central themes such as the relation of music to religion, music and the world of the Kabbalah, and music in communal life. He considers technical and theoretical approaches, as well as art music, folk music, and performance practices of poets, vocalists, instrumentalists and dancers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Joshua S. Walden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107023459
A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.
Author : Lynette Bowring
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0253060087
Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture. Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.
Author : Michael Haas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300154313
DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div
Author : Emanuel Rubin
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN :
The book 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 explores the music and the way it functioned in that society. The work is structured as both a college text and an informative guide for the lay reader.
Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0761856765
Emotions in Jewish Music is an insider’s view of music’s impact on Jewish devotion and identity. Written by cantors who have devoted themselves to the study and execution of Jewish music, the book’s six chapters explore a wide range of musical contexts and encounters. Topics include the spiritual influence of secular Israeli tunes, the use and meaning of traditional synagogue modes, and the changing nature of Jewish worship. The approaches are both personal and scholarly, describing the experiential side of Jewish music in both practical and philosophical terms. Emotions in Jewish Music reveals much about the emotional aspects of Jewish musical expression.
Author : Ruth HaCohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0300177992
This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel"--a variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his "harmonious musicality." In paying close attention to how and where this libel surfaces, HaCohen covers a wide swath of western cultural history, showing how entrenched aesthetic-theological assumptions have persistently defined European culture and its internal moral and political orientations.Ruth HaCohen combines in her comprehensive analysis the perspectives of musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, tracing the tensions between Jewish "noise" and idealized Christian "harmony" and their artistic manifestations from the high Middle Ages through Nazi Germany and beyond. She concludes her book with a passionate and moving argument for humanizing contemporary soundspaces.
Author : Henry Sapoznik
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0857125052
Klezmer! is the fascinating story of survival against the odds, of a musical legacy so potent it can still be heard dispite assimilation and near annihilation. The scratchy, distant sound of the early recordings discovered and studied by Henry Sapoznik have formed a soundtrack for an entirely new generation of performers.
