Jewish Music - Its History People and Song
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Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 MUSIC IN THE BIBLE
- Victory Songs
- Therapeutic Music
- Music at Life Cycle Events and Community Gatherings
- Religious Biblical Music
- 2 MUSIC AND THE BOOK OF PSALMS
- Musical Terms in the Headings of Psalms
- Technical Terms Within the Book of Psalms
- Musical Instruments in the Book of Psalms
- Psalms for the Seven Days of the Week
- 3 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
- The Bible
- Percussion Instruments
- Wind Instruments
- String Instruments
- Mixed Orchestra of Daniel
- 4 THE SHOFAR
- A Brief History
- Description of the Shofar
- When Is the Shofar Sounded and Who May Blow
- It?
- Instrumental Sounds of the Shofar
- Reasons for Sounding the Shofar
- 5 MUSIC IN THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
- 6 RABBINIC ATTITUDE TOWARD MUSIC
- 7 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PIYYUT
- A Brief History
- Forms of the Piyyut
- Sample Texts of the Various Kinds of Piyyutim
- 8 THE CANTOR
- Cantors: Who's Who?
- 9 BIBLICAL CHANTS AND ACCENTS
- Blessing before the Haftarah
- Blessings after Concluding the Haftarah
- Hand Signs for Torah Reading
- Table of Torah Trop Melodies
- Nusach, the Musical Motif
- 10 HASIDISM AND THE NIGGUN
- The Niggun from England
- The Niggun from Habonim
- The Niggun from Galicia
- 11 NOTABLE MUSIC QUOTATIONS AND LEGENDS
- 12 THE YIDDISH FOLK SONG
- Badchonim, Purim Players, Klezmer, and the Yiddish Theater
- A Sampling of Yiddish Folk Songs
- 13 THE BIBLE IN FOLK SONG
- Afro-American Spirituals
- The Jewish Folk Song
- Ashkenazic Folk Songs
- Sephardic Folk Songs
- Oriental and Yemenite Songs
- Modern Hebrew Folk Songs
- Folk Songs of the Land of Israel
- Songs of Jerusalem
- Songs of Building the Land of Israel
- Songs of the Homeland
- Songs of War
- Songs of Love
- Songs of Soviet Jewry
- Hava Nagila: The World's Most Famous Hebrew Song of Joy
- Hatikvah: Israel's National Anthem
- 14 ROCKING THE LITURGY: THE EMERGENCE OF "HASIDIC POP"
- 15 TWENTIETH-CENTURY JEWISH MUSICOLOGISTS,
- COMPOSERS, AND MUSICIANS
- For Further Reading
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