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Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality-that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to his reputation as to his genius. Often maddening, and sometimes called mad, Wagner wrote with the same...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486271477Author Abraham Z. IdelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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...

A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich-and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it...

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...

As an adolescent in Syracuse, New York, Marcia Menter fell in love with the recorded voice of Ann Drummond-Grant, a Scottish contralto who sang with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, the legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe. She dreamed of singing with...

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,...

The richness, variety, and complexity of the culture of the Hausa city-states are illustrated in microcosm in Glossary of Hausa Music and Its Social Contexts, in which several hundred Hausa terms for music are collected. David W. Ames and Anthony V. King...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960082711Author Hal Leonard CorpPage Count 56Imprint Transcontinental Music PublicationsPublisher Transcontinental Music PublicationsWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960082735Author Michael Hunter OchsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Transcontinental Music PublicationsPublisher Transcontinental Music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997643015Author Natalie YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Transcontinental Music PublicationsPublisher Transcontinental Music Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807412381Author Michael BoxerPage Count 54Imprint UAHC PressPublisher UAHC Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997643046Author Peri SmilowFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Transcontinental Music PublicationsPublisher Transcontinental Music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997643053Author Noam KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Transcontinental Music PublicationsPublisher Transcontinental Music Publications

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736690840Author Rosalie WillFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Transcontinental Music PublicationsPublisher Transcontinental Music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997643084Author Hal Leonard CorpPage Count 48Imprint Transcontinental Music PublicationsPublisher Transcontinental Music PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Joshua Jacobson's 2002 edition-the comprehensive 1000-page guide to cantillation-is now available in this condensed, 300-page, user-friendly paperback edition. It is an ideal instructional guide for adult and young-adult students of Torah, for b'nai...

Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983325307Author Joey WeisenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Mechon HadarPublisher Mechon HadarWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

Emotions in Jewish Music is an insiders view of musics impact on Jewish devotion and identity. Written by cantors who have devoted themselves to the study and execution of Jewish music, the books six chapters explore a wide range of musical contexts and...

Songs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling's unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant of Chassidic rebbes, a rationalist, a Reform rabbi, a Zionist, an army chaplain, a celebrated orator,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928822660Author Ben Zion SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Breslov Research InstitutePublisher Breslov Research InstituteWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456816025Author Carolyn VermesFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716164569Author Dr Martin DankFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615314365Author Mary FeinsingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Bitterpearl Music PublicationsPublisher Bitterpearl Music PublicationsWeight(grams)...

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,...

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...

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...

In The Shofar, Jeremy Montagu offers a detailed study of the ram's horn of the Bible, describing its history and use-both ritual and secular-from biblical times to the present. Because the same person normally blows the shofar each year during the Jewish...