Music-Religious-Jewish

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 sole purpose of this book is to have lead sheets, chords sheets for string instruments and a melody page that can be used for power point presentations and over head projectors, allowing the congregation to sing along with the musicians, all in one...

The book Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel. 1950s-1980s aims to refresh the understanding of the relationship between social power relations, youth culture, and popular music in Israel. The authors discuss various perspectives regarding the axis of youth, popular culture, and music...

(Transcontinental Music Folios). Renowned ethnomusicologist, documentarian, and klezmer musician Yale Strom teamed up with Transcontinental Music to create an exhaustive compilation of nigunim, horas, bulgars, and more. This songbook features melody lines and chords for 313 songs including many collected from the field by...

Over many years, The Talmidims (worship and praise musicians), came to understand that although there were many musical arrangements available for praise and worship of our Lord Yeshua haMashiach, also known as Jesus Christ, there was not a lot of Messianic song resources needed...

JEWISH WEDDING MUSIC: PROCESSIONALS AND RECESSIONALS is a collection of instrumental music scores for the Jewish wedding ceremony. The music has been carefully selected and beautifully arranged to enhance the joy and awe of the Jewish marriage service. The selections reflect a variety of...

When Gilya Gerda Schmidt met him in 1986, Cantor Heiser had spent forty-six of his eighty-one years as a US citizen and was well-acquainted with mourning. Heiser had assumed the cantorate at Congregation B'nai Israel in the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1942....

Avraham Mordechai Himelstein was born in Warsaw in 1905 where he absorbed the traditional tunes of the prayers. He attended the Warsaw State Academy, and was also very active in conducting youth choirs. In 1936, he accepted a call from Tifereth Israel Synagogue in...

The Tot Shabbat Handbook: A Practical Guide for Engaging Young Families in Congregational LifeBook and CDEngaging and retaining young families is key to the life of every synagogue, big or small. ""Tot Shabbat"" worship has become almost universal, but many congregations depend on a...

""Ceremonies of Judaism"" by Abraham Z. Idelsohn is a comprehensive guide to the rituals and practices of Judaism. The book explores the various ceremonies that are an integral part of Jewish life, including those related to birth, marriage, death, and holidays. It also delves...

The Ancient Melodies Of The Liturgy Of The Spanish And Portuguese Jews is a book written by Emanuel Aguilar and originally published in 1857. It is a comprehensive collection of liturgical music and hymns used by the Sephardic Jewish community in Spain and Portugal,...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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, some fans attending every show. What may be surprising is that a significant percentage of Phishheads are Jewish.Two members of the band--bassist Mike Gordon and...

New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914. 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...

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 Fr?auf 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,...

This book is the first comprehensive research project on the encounter of music and Judaism in the theological and philosophical realms, tracing the historical evolution of the music motif in Jewish thought.Author: Dov SchwartzISBN-10: 8887190704ISBN-13: 9798887190709Publisher: Academic Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/27/2022Pages: 326Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize:...

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...

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