Cantorial music

Services for Sabbath eve and morning, Three Festivals, New Year, and Yom Kippur, for cantor (solo). Originally published.... (please complete)

Originally published in 1895, this collection was re-printed by the Sacred Music Press as part of the Out of print classics series of synagogue music. It includes music for the Neilah Service on Yom Kippur set for solo and mixed chorus.

Originally published in 1901, this collection was re-printed by the Sacred Music Press as part of the Out of print classics series of synagogue music. It includes music for the Kabbalat Shabbat service set for solo, mixed chorus and organ.

A complete collection of music for Shabbat and Festivals written for one to two voices. The score is divided by service beginning with arrangements for Shabbat Minhah and concluding with the Ne'ilah Service for Yom Kippur.

Kwartin’s improvisations on traditional synagogue melodies were recorded and transcribed for the three volume collection, Zemirot Zevulun, which was released in two parts; the first two volumes in 1928 and a supplementary volume T’fillot Zevulun in 1938. The collection includes complete musical liturgy for weekday Minchah, Maariv, Kabbalat Shabbat, Shaharit and Musaf.

Performances of liturgical music by hazzanim Josef Rosenblatt, Samuel Vigoda and Moshe Koussevitzk

Collection of liturgical music for use by Hazzanim

The early research by B. Szabolcsi and Eric Werner assumed that the Gregorian Psalmody Tonus Peregrinus originated in the Jewish tradition. This article expands the earlier research on that topic. The connection between the Tonus Peregrinus and the Jewish tradition is not in their melodic structure but in the independant motivic units.

Gerson-Kiwi's analyses the different types of polyphonies and uses the polyphonies of Yemenite Jews, Samaritans and Jews of Corfu (Greece) to show that polyphonies exist among ethnicities which were not considered the "polyphonic races"- a theory which was prevalent in the early 20th century. Analysis of the music of the three unrelated groups show different kinds of polyphonic singing.