Quotations On Jewish Sacred Music

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761855385

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Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music is a collection of over 700 quotations culled from an array of sources, including rabbinic and theological texts, sociological and anthropological studies, and historical and musicological examinations. The book is divided into five chapters: What Is Jewish Music?; Spirituality and Prayer; Hazzan-Cantor; Cantillation-Biblical Chant; and Nusach ha-Tefillah-Liturgical Chant. Taken as a whole, these quotations demonstrate both the centrality of music in Jewish religious life and the diversity of thought on the subject. They can be used with profit in sermons, speeches, and papers, and may be read in order or selectively. This is a valuable and easy-to-use reference book for scholars, musicians, synagogue staff, and anyone else seeking concise thoughts on major aspects of Jewish sacred music.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780761855378

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Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music is a collection of over 700 quotations culled from an array of sources, including rabbinic and theological texts, sociological and anthropological studies, and historical and musicological examinations. The book isdivided into five chapters: What Is Jewish Music?; Spirituality and Prayer; Hazzan-Cantor; Cantillation-Biblical Chant; and Nusach ha-Tefillah-Liturgical Chant. Taken as a whole, these quotations demonstrate both the centrality of music in Jewish religious life and the diversity of thought on the subject. They can be used with profit in sermons, speeches, and papers, and may be read in order or selectively. This is a valuable and easy-to-use reference book for scholars, musicians, synagogue staff, and anyone else seeking concise thoughts on major aspects of Jewish sacred music.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786477739

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Music in the Hebrew Bible by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

Music in the Hebrew Bible investigates musical citations in the Hebrew Bible and their relevance for our times. Most biblical musical references are addressed, either alone or as a grouping, and each is considered from a modern perspective. The book consists of one hundred brief essays divided into four parts. Part one offers general overviews of musical contexts, recurring musical-biblical themes and discussions of basic attitudes and tendencies of the biblical authors and their society. Part two presents essays uncovering what the Torah (Pentateuch) has to say about music, both literally and allegorically. The third part includes studies on music's place in Nevi'im (Prophets) and the perceived link between musical expression and human-divine contact. Part four is comprised of essays on musical subjects derived from the disparate texts of Ketuvim (Writings).

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786491360

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Synagogue Song by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

Throughout history, music has been a fixture of Jewish religious life. Musical references appear in biblical accounts of the Red Sea crossing and King Solomon's coronation, and music continues to play a central role in virtually every Jewish occasion. Through 100 brief chapters, this volume considers theoretical approaches to the study of Jewish sacred music. Topics include the diversity of Jewish music, the interaction of music and identity, the emotional and spiritual impact of worship music, the text-tone relationship, the musical component of Jewish holidays, and the varied ways prayer-songs are performed. These distillations of complex topics invite a fuller appreciation of synagogue song and an understanding of the ubiquitous presence of music in Jewish worship.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476635583

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Cantor William Sharlin by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

William Sharlin (1920-2012) was a cantor, synagogue composer, teacher and musicologist. Raised in an Orthodox household, he turned toward Universalism and the liberal Reform movement. A member of the first graduating class of the first cantorial school in America, he was a founding member of the American Conference of Cantors and is recognized as the first to play a guitar in the synagogue. Sharlin developed the Department of Sacred Music at HUC in Los Angeles, where he taught for 40 years, trained women to be cantors before they were allowed in the seminary, and spent nearly four decades at Leo Baeck Temple. Drawing on interviews conducted with Sharlin late in life, the author chronicles the career of one of the most inventive and creative figures in the history of the cantorate.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780761856764

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Emotions in Jewish Music by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

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 : Judah M. Cohen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253040244

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Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America by Judah M. Cohen Pdf

In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to Europe as a source of innovation during this time, Cohen’s careful analysis of primary archival sources tells a different story. Far from seeing a fallow musical landscape, Cohen finds that Central European Jews in the United States spearheaded a major revision of the sounds and traditions of synagogue music during this period of rapid liturgical change. Focusing on the influences of both individuals and texts, Cohen demonstrates how American Jewish musicians sought to balance artistry and group singing, rather than "progressing" from solo chant to choir and organ. Congregations shifted between musical genres and practices during this period in response to such factors as finances, personnel, and communal cohesiveness. Cohen concludes that the "soundtrack" of 19th-century Jewish American music heavily shapes how we look at Jewish American music and life in the first part of the 21st-century, arguing that how we see, and especially hear, history plays a key role in our understanding of the contemporary world around us. Supplemented with an interactive website that includes the primary source materials, recordings of the music discussed, and a map that highlights the movement of key individuals, Cohen’s research defines more clearly the sound of 19th-century American Jewry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786455096

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Music in Jewish Thought by Anonim Pdf

With the nineteenth century came new freedom for European Jews. Enjoying an integration that had been denied since the Middle Ages, they now wrestled with the form and degree of that integration in all areas of their lives, including in their creation, appreciation, and criticism of music. The writings focus on Jewish musicology, biography, historical surveys, secular music and songs performed in the synagogue.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786497591

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Music in Our Lives by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

Music research has entered something of a Golden Age. Technological advances and scholarly inquiry have merged in interdisciplinary studies--drawing on psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and other fields--that illuminate the musical nature of our species. This volume develops, supports and challenges that body of research, examining key issues in the field, such as the difficulty of writing about music, the formation of musical preferences, the emotional impact of musical sounds, the comparison of music and language, the impulse for making music and the connection between music and spirituality.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786474097

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Music in Biblical Life by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

Music was integral to the daily life of ancient Israel. It accompanied activities as diverse as manual labor and royal processionals. At key junctures and in core institutions, musical tones were used to deliver messages, convey emotions, strengthen communal bonds and establish human-divine contact. This book explores the intricate and multifaceted nature of biblical music through a detailed look into four major episodes and genres: the Song of the Sea (Exod. 15), King Saul and David's harp (1 Sam. 16), the use of music in prophecy, and the Book of Psalms. This investigation demonstrates how music helped shape and define the self-identity of ancient Israel.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89122457930

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780739168325

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Social Functions of Synagogue Song by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

Social Functions of Synagogue Song: A Durkheimian Approach by Jonathan L. Friedmann paints a detailed picture of the important role sacred music plays in Jewish religious communities. This study explores one possible way to approach the subject of music’s intimate connection with public worship: applying sociologist Émile Durkeim’s understanding of ceremonial ritual to synagogue music. Durkheim observed that religious ceremonies serve disciplinary, cohesive, revitalizing, and euphoric functions within religious communities. Drawing upon musical examples from different composers, regions, periods, rites, and services, Friedmann demonstrates how Jewish sacred music performs these functions.

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015066169619

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Behrman House,Bruce Kadden,Barbara Binder Kadden
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0867050861

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Teaching Tefilah by Behrman House,Bruce Kadden,Barbara Binder Kadden Pdf

Parts I through IV of Teaching Tefilah contain fifteen chapters, each dealing with a section of the worship service or a topic related to prayer. Part V, new in this expanded revised edition, contains six new essays reflecting on recent trends in Jewish worship.

Author : Eric Werner
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042396858

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A Voice Still Heard by Eric Werner Pdf

How many worshipers or listeners have been moved by the venerable strains of the Synagogue! These melodies, rich in memories, were often the subjects of heated controversies regarding their age, authenticity, provenance, and especially their resemblance to German or Polish popular songs. Now for the first time the history of these songs, their liturgical, musical, social, and political background has been thoroughly examined and comprehensively described--by the leading authority in the field of Jewish and Early Christian music. The folk songs of Germany, Poland, France, and Italy have left their vestiges in the musical tradition of the Ashkenazic (German-Austrian-Polish- Russian) Synagogue. A critical history and morphology of that tradition, this book presents new facts, corrects old errors, and contains more than two hundred musical examples. Beginning a millennium ago with prototypes of the synagogue chant, Dr. Werner shows the differences between original folk song and its stylization, between Christian and Jewish esthetics of religious music. The interaction between secular romantic music and synagogal music is traced. Other major topics are the relations among Spanish, Italian, and German Jews; the divergence of Eastern and Western European styles; and regional influences that often outweighed liturgical ones.