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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...

Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America examines the proliferation and use of popular Hebrew Zionist music amongst American Jewry during the first half of the twentieth century. This music--one part in a greater process of instilling diasporic Zionism in American...

Jews have been a major presence in America's jazz, as musicians and as jazz facilitators, and in Kosher Jammers: Jewish Connections in Jazz - The USA, Gerber tells that story with a rigour worthy of academia but with a feature writer's creative flair. Besides...

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...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Golden Ages is an ethnographic study of young singers in the contemporary Brooklyn Hasidic community who base their aesthetic explorations...

Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America examines the proliferation and use of popular Hebrew Zionist music amongst American Jewry during the first half of the twentieth century. This music--one part in a greater process of instilling diasporic Zionism in American...

In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach." Chief among these developments was the growth of feminist Jewish songwriting. In this...

Featuring 177 Hymns with Stories, Text and Music for most hymns Complete story behind each hymn _ Biography and Pictures of Writers Bible verses attributed to each hymn _Quotations matching the message in each hymn Daily Bible reading guide to help us read the...

(Tara Books). This huge collection features piano/vocal arrangements of over 100 songs of Israel; songs in Yiddish, Ladino and English; Sabbath songs; Hanukah songs; festival songs; and selections for the Passover Seder. Includes: Adir Hu * Ballad of the Four Sons * Donna, Donna...

(Transcontinental Music Folios). This songbook is as wonderful a historical perspective as it is a musical resource. The 36 selections in this folio encompass the most culturally and developmentally significant of Israel's 60-year history from the poetic, patriotic anthems of Naomi Shemer that underscored...

What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some...

(Tara Books). The largest, most complete Jewish music fake book in print Features 250 selections compiled, edited and arranged by Velvel Pasternak, noted Jewish music anthologist. Includes: Klezmer, Yiddish, Israeli, Sephardic, Hasidic, holidays, wedding, dances, Nigunim, and rounds. An essential Jewish music library in...

The are in the book songs without text. Check out samples from books: http: //osos.sweb.cz/Sarek-Guitar-and-Guitalele-preview.pdf This book features 20 songs. The Tres Cubano (traditionally tuned g4 g3 c4 c4 e4 e3) managed to spread worldwide as well as Jewish music before. Moreover, Jewish music...

(Tara Books). An instant Jewish music library, packed with the most popular Jewish songs of the 20th century. Divided into six categories: Songs of Israel, Songs in Yiddish, Sephardic and Ladino, Songs in English, Sabbath and Holidays, and Hassidic and Liturgical, all in a...

Polish Jewish Culture beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War (1899-1939)....

Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish and Christian...

The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor provides an unprecedented look into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American Reform Jews at the turn of the 21st century. How do aspiring cantors adapt traditional musical forms to the practices of contemporary American congregations?...

Music is the soul's native language: a prayer, a divine ladder upon which we climb between the Earth and the Heavens. But music also reaches horizontally across our social fractures and dogmas and connect us one with the other. Just as it cuts the...

Stairway to Paradise reveals how American Jewish entrepreneurs, musicians, and performers influenced American popular music from the late nineteenth century till the mid-1960s. From blackface minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, and Broadway musicals, ending with folk and rock 'n' roll. The book follows the writers...

Since 2005, Michael Croland has schlepped far and wide covering Jewish punk bands. He has attended scores of concerts and interviewed dozens of musicians. He is the author of a scholarly book, Oy Oy Oy Gevalt Jews and Punk (Praeger, 2016). He has written...

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...

Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion offers an easy-to-read and new perspective on the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the United States. This much-needed survey on the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic and diverse musical culture...

In Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, John Arthur Smith presents the first full-length study of music among the ancient Israelites, the ancient Jews and the early Christians in the Mediterranean lands during the period from 1000 BCE to 400 CE. He considers...

Phish has a diehard fan base and a dedicated community of enthusiasts--called Phishheads--who follow the band around the country, attending every show. What may be surprising is that a significant percentage of those fans are Jewish.Two members of the band--bassist Mike Gordon and drummer...

Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of the Yiddish East End. Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914 by Vivi Lachs positions London's Yiddish popular culture...

The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful but often overlooked presence of the organ in synagogue music and the musical life of German-speaking Jewish communities. Tina Frühauf expertly chronicles the history of the organ in Jewish culture from the earliest...

Across the United States, Jews come together every week to sing and pray in a wide variety of worship communities. Through this music, made by and for ordinary folk, these worshippers define and re-define their relationship to the continuity of Jewish tradition and the...

"Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in the Holocaust, silenced under Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in...

(Transcontinental Music Folios). The late Debbie Friedman, who passed away in 2011, is regarded as the greatest Jewish singer-songwriter in history. Now, for the first time, her music has been gathered together in one definitive, comprehensive collection. This book is a tribute to Debbie's...

In recent decades, world music styles have been making increasing inroads into Western popular music, music theater, choral concerts, and even concert hall performances. So You Want to Sing World Music is an essential compendium of these genres and provides technical approaches to singing...

(Transcontinental Music Folios). We are pleased to present the most comprehensive collection of Jewish vocal wedding music This songbook features five complete wedding services, 29 vocal settings (mostly from the Song of Solomon) by such esteemed composers as Ben Steinberg, Debbie Friedman, Bonia Shur,...

Carol Matz's Famous & Fun Jewish Songs, Book 1 is filled with well-known, beloved Hebrew melodies. The collection contains songs for various Jewish holidays, Israeli, and Yiddish folk songs, as well as treasured traditional pieces. The arrangements can be used to supplement any method...

Arranger/educator Robert Schultz has compiled and arranged a fantastic collection of Chanukah songs for easy piano. Titles: Al Hanisim * Baruch Shel Chanukah * Hanerot Halalu * I Have a Little Dreydl * Lichvod Hachanukah * Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages) * Mi Y'malel...

(Transcontinental Music Folios). Songleading: A Work of Art is a comprehensive guide to leading group singing in worship, school, and communal settings. This essential resource presents indispensable and practical insights and countless recommendations for ongoing refinements to your craft. Useful illustrations and appendixes help...

Sonic Ruins of Modernity shows how social, cultural and cognitive phenomena interact in the making and distribution of folksongs beyond their time. Through Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) folksongs, the author illustrates a methodology for the interplay of individual memories, artistic initiatives, political and media policies,...

The connection of Judaism to music has been a lively discourse topic in recent years, and the musical awakening in religious circles is one expression of it. This book is the first comprehensive research project on the encounter of music and Judaism in the...

Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light...

Musical culture in Jewish communities in early modern Italy was much more diverse than researchers originally thought. An interdisciplinary reassessment, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy evaluates the social, cultural, political, economic, and religious circumstances that shaped this community, especially in light...

(Tara Books). A fantastic collection of more than 100 songs in a wide variety of styles that have remained popular into the 21st century. They comprise a body of anonymous songs passed on orally from generation to generation, as well as songs created by...

(Tara Books). Ladino is the name of the Judeo-Spanish dialect that was spoken by the Sephardic Jewish communities in their Dispora. The Ladino Songbook features 68 hauntingly beautiful Ladino folksongs culled from an extensive repertoire and published in a compact edition.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10:...

This six-book set, is to date the most comprehensive annotated anthology of the authentic musical liturgy of the Eastern European synagogue Sabbath day services. Encyclopedic in scope, the thoroughness of its coverage is unprecedented. This volume includes multiple renditions of every prayer text in...

ISBN-10: 0807410667ISBN-13: 9780807410660Publisher: Transcontinental Music PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2013Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbs

(Transcontinental Music Folios). Comprises settings of four folk songs, originally from a variety of sources, selected to suggest the outline of a continuous narrative, as well as to present vignettes of Jewish life in Eastern Europe ca. 1925-1945. Includes performance notes by the composer,...

(Transcontinental Music Folios). An important collection of solo material from one of the most respected families in Jewish music. Includes classic pieces as well as previously unpublished works from both Samuel Adler and his father, the late Hugo Chaim Adler, in English, Hebrew, German...

Author: Lazar WeinerISBN-10: 0807409936ISBN-13: 9780807409930Publisher: Transcontinental Music PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2013Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.50d

This collection contains sixty-two psalm settings and eighteen canticles selected from The Psalter: Psalms and Canticles for Singing, published by Westminster/John Knox Press in 1993, that may be easily sung by a choir. Most of the settings are for SATB voices, although unison settings...

So You Want to Sing Music by Women opens wide a vast repertoire of vocal music written by women to advocate for widespread inclusion of this too-often neglected work in performance repertoire. Hoch and Lister provide a historical and contemporary perspective, chronicling the Western...

Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world. With chapters covering Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in East and Southeast Asia, the...

(Tara Books). The largest, most comprehensive, broad-based, Jewish music collection ever published. Compiled, edited and arranged by Velvel Pasternak, the Big Jewish Songbook is a veritable treasure trove of 265 popular Jewish songs including: Israeli, Hasidic, Yiddish, Klezmer, Sephardic, Ladino, English, Shabbat & Holidays,...

This how-to guide explains how to make music a lasting and joy-filled force in shul and Jewish life. Weisenberg presents a veritable treasure house of musical opportunities.Author: Joey WeisenbergISBN-10: 0983325308ISBN-13: 9780983325307Publisher: Mechon HadarLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2011Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d