The Legacy of Jewish Music Through the Ages
A small booklet discussing the main features of the music of various Jewish communities from an ethnomusicological point of view.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1963
Chants judeo-espagnols
Author
Simple transcriptions, but a good source for singers.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1959-73
Judeo-Spanish Traditional Ballads from Jerusalem: an Ethnomusicological Study
Author
This book is an outcome of Katz's Ph.D. dissertation. The transcriptions are meticulous and detailed. An excellent study of the Judeo-Spanish tradition, and the so called 'Ladino' romances.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1972
Traditional High Holy Day Melodies of the Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam
Author
Begins with a brief history of Jewish life in Amsterdam from the earliest evidence of the 16th c., through the 17th and 18th c., including the construction and later history of the famous Esnoga (synagogue) building and the associated Ets Haim library. Musical life in the Amsterdam Jewish community in the 17th and 18th c.
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Articles in Journals
Year:
1981
High Holy Day Hymn Melodies in the Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam
Author
History of the Spanish-Portuguese community in Amsterdam and a comparison between the present day service and past service as described in 1788 by Joseph Pinto.
Material Type:
Articles in Journals
Year:
1980
Chants sephardis
Persistence and Transformation of a Sephardi Penitential Hymn under Changing Enviromental Conditions
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Co-editor
Editor
Co-editor
Co-editor
Material Type:
Articles in Books
Year:
1986
La musique juive dans l'Espagne medievale
Lists eighteen Jewish musicians in Christian courts from the 9th to fifteenth century in Spain and describes their repertoire.
Material Type:
Articles in Books
Year:
1968
[On] Edwin Seroussi, "Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-Century Reform Sources from Hamburg : Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity" (1996)
An Old Faith in the New World: a Portrait of Shearith Israel, 1654-1954
Author
Co-author
Chapter on the liturgical music of the Spanish-Portuguese community of New York City, pp.145-151
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1955
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.