… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. Petersburg Conservatory where he … Yuli Achron was a local merchant and a maskil, an expert on classical Hebrew and a baal-kore in the synagogue who also …

… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … source it was reprinted in M. Beregovski, Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski … as volume 4 of his planned five-volume collection of Jewish Music. The tonality was restored to g minor natural, as in …

… anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a short … university-level students in the late Russian Empire was a musician at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. [3] While the … in the early years of the Soviet regime. Even the place of classical music in Soviet Russian culture became a highly …

… Mediaeval treatises on music usually begin with a series of stereotype … answers, very often in the following order: (1)  Quid sit musica ; (2)  unde dicetur ; (3)  a quibus sit inventa . The … sound relations in numerical proportions, represents the classical view on the beginnings of musical science. Jubal, …

… she worked as a teacher and kindergarten instructor, using music and dance to educate children and pass on Yemeni … innovative teaching materials, including original songs and music, gained significant recognition and have been used by … Her theatrical approach, a multidimensional dance, theater, music, recitation, and acting performance, was considered …

… years with his brothers in the clothing business, pursuing musical activities in his free time. In April of 1884, Stark … of 1885 traveled to Vienna and to  Leipzig to study music formally. In 1891, Stark accepted his first official … avot modes. Stark’s style was heavily influenced by the classical oratorio, and by the work of  Salomon Sulzer and …

… role in dramatically shifting the aesthetics of liturgical music in the liberal Jewish movements of North America. … career began in the 1960s, developing out of the folk music and communal singing tradition of Jewish summer camps. … in rock music, as opposed to its relatively rare usage in classical music. [11] We do not claim that Friedman’s song …

… .  Baal Tfilla  includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from  Salomon Sulzer ,  Louis Lewandowski … The remarkable list of congratulatory notes by cantors and musicians from the four corners of the Jewish world, which … School; see N. Levin 1997); and the School of Sacred Music of Hebrew Union College. A testimony to the canonical …

… throughout Eastern Europe. Because of the exceptional musical and emotional power of his singing, he attained a … importance of Cantor Salomon in the writings of cantors and musicologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. … Salomon was one of the earliest synagogue cantors whose musical compositions are extant today, and the earliest …