Emotions in Jewish Music

Emotions in Jewish Music
Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2012-02-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0761856765

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.

Discovering Jewish Music

Discovering Jewish Music
Author: Marsha Bryan Edelman
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780827610279

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music

Quotations on Jewish Sacred Music
Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2011-09-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0761855386

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.

Music in Jewish Thought

Music in Jewish Thought
Author:
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2014-09-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0786455098

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.

Jewish Music

Jewish Music
Author: Abraham Zebi Idelsohn
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780486271477

In this landmark of musical scholarship, the leading 20th-century authority on Jewish music describes and analyzes its elements and characteristics, and chronicles its development from the earliest appearance of Semitic song 2000 years ago to the early 20th century. Liberally illustrating every type of music discussed, the book examines the music as a tonal expression of Judaism, Jewish life and the spiritual aspects of Jewish culture.

The Music Libel Against the Jews

The Music Libel Against the Jews
Author: Ruth HaCohen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300177992

This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel"--a variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his "harmonious musicality." In paying close attention to how and where this libel surfaces, HaCohen covers a wide swath of western cultural history, showing how entrenched aesthetic-theological assumptions have persistently defined European culture and its internal moral and political orientations.Ruth HaCohen combines in her comprehensive analysis the perspectives of musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, tracing the tensions between Jewish "noise" and idealized Christian "harmony" and their artistic manifestations from the high Middle Ages through Nazi Germany and beyond. She concludes her book with a passionate and moving argument for humanizing contemporary soundspaces.

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy

Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Author: Lynette Bowring
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2022-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253060087

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 of the need to recognize individual experiences within minority populations. Contributors draw from rich materials, topics, and approaches as they explore the inherently diverse understandings of music in daily life, the many ways that Jewish communities conceived of music, and the reception of and responses to Jewish musical culture. Highlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.

Music and Kabbalah

Music and Kabbalah
Author: Matityahu Glazerson
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1996-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1461629659

Music is an intrinsic part of Jewish expression, reaching back to the biblical "Song of the Sea," which appears in Exodus, and the Psalms composed by King David. Employing the tools of Jewish mysticism, Music and Kabbalah examines the spiritual connection between God and music. The holy aspects of the musical scale, musical terminology, and instruments named in the Psalms are deciphered by using the gematria (interpretive numeric value) of their Hebrew names. Rabbi Glazerson employs music as a vehicle with which to teach that "Judaism and the Hebrew language, the holy tongue, are vast and deep, embracing incomprehensible knowledge of every aspect and sphere of life."

Choices in Modern Jewish Thought

Choices in Modern Jewish Thought
Author: Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1995
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780874415810

Jewish philosophy responds to the challenges of today's world. By studying the ideas of great contemporary thinkers, readers will achieve a rich understanding of our contemporary spiritual needs.

Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought

Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought
Author: Arthur Allen Cohen
Publisher: New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan
Total Pages: 1188
Release: 1988
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

A collection of 140 essays by renowned figures on the fundamental concepts, beliefs and movements in historical and contemporary Jewish thought. Charity, chosen people, death, culture, family, freedom, history, love, immortality, myth, prayer, science, tradition and Torah are among the subjects addressed in this handbook of Jewish experience and thought.