Overview

The purpose of this book is to present a survey of Jewish music to illuminate its special role as a mirror of history, tradition, and cultural heritage. The 27 topical chapters have been placed within a modified chronological perspective to present a historic picture of virtually every important development in Jewish music. The book represents a culmination of several decades of the author's dedicated labor and scholarly study in this field.

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Author:   Irene Heskes
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 33.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.709kg
ISBN:  

9780313280351

ISBN 10:   0313280355
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 June 1994
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Documenting the Heritage A Duty of Preservation and Continuity: Collectors and Collections of Jewish Music in America Abraham Z. Idelsohn and Gershon Ephros: Creative Connection Builders of Sacred Bridges: Scholars and Studies in Jewish Music Bible, Liturgy, and the Cantorial Art Jewish Music and Biblical Heritage An Historical and Bibliographical Perspective on Jewish Liturgical Music in the Settled Areas of Eastern Europe to 1900 The Golden Age of the Cantorial Art Melodies of Prayer: The Jewish Liturgical Calendar The Musical Heritage of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs Three Important Collections of Sephardic Music Sephardic Music Conference in Jerusalem Sephardic Traditions and Mediterranean Styles The Music of Oriental Jewry Music of Mysticism and Piety The Mystics: Poet-Bards of the Liturgy The Music of Hasidism: Melodies of Spiritual Ecstasy Collections of Hasidic Music The Yiddish Musical World of Eastern Europe Music and Yiddish: Folksong Heritage Yiddish Musical Theater: Its Origins in Europe Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music The Holocaust Era The Musical Legacy of the Holocaust America Three Hundred Years of Jewish Music in America Music of Zion and Israel Hope and the Man: Hatikvah and Naphtali Herz Imber Song and the Modern Return to Zion The Inspiration of Israeli Composers Musical Festivities in Israel Composers and Compositions Reflections on Creativity and Heritage: [Salamone Rossi and His Era Meyerbeer, Halevy, Offenbach: The 19th Century Arnold Schoenberg: A 20th-Century Man Bloch, Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco An Emigre Sampler: Toch, Zeisl, Wolpe, Weill Leonard Bernstein Commissioning of Jewish Music Some Thoughts on American Popular Song Writers: Berlin, Kern, Gershwin, Arlen] Scripture as Creative Inspiration Women Miriam's Sisters: Jewish Women and Liturgical Music Afterword Index

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.,.""all of the essays are concise and well written and, highly accessible. A broad spectrum of readers will find this work useful.""-Choice ?...all of the essays are concise and well written and, highly accessible. A broad spectrum of readers will find this work useful.?-Choice ?Irene Heskes, the seemingly indefatigable bibliographer and promoter of Jewish music study, provides a sampling of the fruits of ""several decades of dedicated study and scholarly labors in the field of Jewish music,""(p.ix). The volume contains a collection of newly compiled essays and preexistent lectures, chapters, journal articles, book reviews, and prefaces, arranged systematically to cover the diverse terrain of Jewish music. .../For the newcomer to Jewish music scholarship(to whom these writings seem mainly directed), the volume is particularly useful for its brief biographies and assessments of those who are fundamental to the field.?- Music Reference Services Quarterly ?This work fulfills overwhelmingly the promise of its title, being an exhaustive examination of the history, form and meaning of Jewish musical traditions. Passport to Jewish Music takes the reader beyond the potentially pedantic historical delineation to a wealth of information on ""tradition and history, liturgy, and folklore, custom and artistry."" For that reason it stands as a potential reference work not only in music, but in ethnography, religion, and biography as well. Highly recommended for academic libraries, for collections of music, religion and Jewish studies.?-Notes ...""all of the essays are concise and well written and, highly accessible. A broad spectrum of readers will find this work useful.""-Choice ""This work fulfills overwhelmingly the promise of its title, being an exhaustive examination of the history, form and meaning of Jewish musical traditions. Passport to Jewish Music takes the reader beyond the potentially pedantic historical delineation to a wealth of information on ""tradition and history, liturgy, and folklore, custom and artistry."" For that reason it stands as a potential reference work not only in music, but in ethnography, religion, and biography as well. Highly recommended for academic libraries, for collections of music, religion and Jewish studies.""-Notes ""Irene Heskes, the seemingly indefatigable bibliographer and promoter of Jewish music study, provides a sampling of the fruits of ""several decades of dedicated study and scholarly labors in the field of Jewish music,""(p.ix). The volume contains a collection of newly compiled essays and preexistent lectures, chapters, journal articles, book reviews, and prefaces, arranged systematically to cover the diverse terrain of Jewish music. .../For the newcomer to Jewish music scholarship(to whom these writings seem mainly directed), the volume is particularly useful for its brief biographies and assessments of those who are fundamental to the field.""- Music Reference Services Quarterly

.,. all of the essays are concise and well written and, highly accessible. A broad spectrum of readers will find this work useful. -Choice

Author Information

IRENE HESKES is a music historian who specializes in Jewish music. She has written numerous articles and reviews for musicological and general journal publications in America, Europe, and Israel, and has contributed to the Encyclopedia Judaica, as well as to Musical Theater in America (Greenwood, 1984), and Handbook of Holocaust Literature (Greenwood, 1993). Among her books are: Studies in Jewish Music (1971), Jews in Music (1974), Ernest Bloch: Creative Spirit (1976), The Resource Book of Jewish Music (Greenwood, 1985), The Music of Abraham Goldfaden (1990), The Golden Age of Cantors (1991), and Yiddish-American Popular Songs, 1895 to 1950 (1992).

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