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The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Prior to the advent of modernity, Ashkenazi hazzanim acquired their cantorial skills by…
Akdamut millin
A hymn that precedes the Torah blessing and the reading of the Torah on Shavuot.…
Myer Leoni
Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England. In 1767 he took a…
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…
The mystical strain in Jewish liturgical music
Drawing on evidence from the Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Yemenite traditions, and…
ניגון דבקות
המונח ניגון דבקות, שמקורו ביידיש 'א דביקות ניגן' או 'א דבייקה', מתייחס…
Agadelkha Elohei (Shir ha-yihud)
Agadelkha Elohei (Shir ha-yihud). I will praise you, god (Song of Unity). Performed by…
Preliminary thoughts toward the study of music without clear beat: the example of 'flowing rhythm' in Jewish nusah
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Toward A Clearer Definition of the Magen Avot Mode
Primarily motivated by historical and comparative musicology, past studies of Ashkenazi…