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  Jewish Music Institute - Jewish Studies at Hebrew College
The Jewish Liturgical Music Program can be completed in one of several tracks: as a freestanding certificate, as part of a Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Studies, as part of a Master of Arts in Jewish Studies or as part of a Master of Jewish Education.
Music is not only an important area of Jewish experience in and of itself; Jewish music also serves as a method for teaching about other aspects of Jewish life, such as holiday observance.
The Jewish Music Education Program can be completed in one of two tracks: as a freestanding certificate or as a specialization within the Master of Jewish Education degree.
www.hebrewcollege.edu /html/jewish_studies/jewish_music.htm   (696 words)

  
 Jewish World Music
Thus, to a large degree, Jewish Music is a cross-cultural phenomenon, the music of the wanderer.
Music of the Middle East generally belongs to the modal, or melodic traditions of music.
Music for Synagogue Worship - Included in this category is the art of the Cantor (in Hebrew: Hazan), who utilizes specific modes and melodies, and the art of Biblical cantillation, with its ancient tradition of neumes and modal chanting.
www.tzimmes.net /jm.htm#Ashkenazi   (2334 words)

  
 Jewish Music in Romania
The music of Di Naye Kapelye attempts to recreate the kind of Jewish music that might have been heard before the mass emigration of East European Jews to America at the turn of the 20th century.
After the "Jewish enlightenment" it became more common for men to dance together with women (a practice still avoided by Orthodox Jews), and models for such music were sought outside of Jewish life.
Jewish musicians in Roman often played alongside Gypsies, and a basic band was formed of a violin or trumpet, accordion, and drum – a very typical lineup for a modern Moldavian band even today.
www.dinayekapelye.com /jmromania.htm   (1678 words)

  
 JEWISH MUSIC INSTITUTE SOAS
The Jewish Music Institute: dedicated to the celebration, preservation and development of the living heritage of Jewish music for the benefit of all.
The Jewish Music Institute is an independent arts organisation (non-religious), established in March 2000 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, after 18 years of successful operation under the name of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust.
JMI is a national focus bringing Jewish music to the mainstream British cultural arena for people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures.
www.jmi.org.uk   (94 words)

  
 Jewish Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Then there is another, newer area of Jewish music gaining popularity that falls under the catch-all term of contemporary Jewish music.
Klezmer has come to mean the musical style of the Ashkenazic -- Eastern European, particularly Slavic countries and Germany -- Jewish community.
Some of these musical styles even have dance steps associated with them -- no wedding is complete without a Jewish circle dance usually accompanied by lifting the bride and groom in the air on separate chairs.
www.insideworldmusic.com /library/bl1012.htm   (321 words)

  
 Zamir Chorale: Jewish Music Bibliography
"Jewish Liturgical Music in the Wake of Nineteenth-Century Reform." in Lawrence Hoffman and Janet Walton (eds.).
"The Music of Leonard Bernstein." Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1964.
"Jewish and Musical Tradition in the Music of Mahler and Schoenberg." Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, 9 (2 (November) 1986): 217-231.
www.zamir.org /resources/Biblio.html   (2742 words)

  
 Jewish Children's Music
The music is not traditional songs you know, but new songs, each in a different musical style, from zydeco to rock to rap.
The combination of traditional Jewish and Yiddish material with many new songs yields an album that is fun and instructional for kids of all ages.
This is also a wonderful resource for cantors, songleaders, and music teachers who are looking for new melodies to introduce to their congregations and schools.
music4jewishkids.tripod.com /music.htm   (4144 words)

  
 Jewish Music Festival
The Jewish Music Festival is the largest festival of Jewish music in the West.
The mission of the Jewish Music Festival is to present music that celebrates the Jewish experience and explores what it means to be Jewish in a multicultural world.
Old and New World Jewish Music: Two of the Bay Area’s most popular world music ensembles, Kitka and Davka, come together again for an encore collaboration based on their wildly successful, sold- out, standing ovation concert performed at the 2002 JMF.The concert will take place and be videotaped for future broadcast on public television.
www.jewishmusicfestival.org   (221 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Jewish Klezmer Music: Music: Zev Feldman,Andy Statman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In their own community, these young Jewish musicians and scholars sought out the rapidly decreasing handful of "alter klezmorim", the last living practioners and bearers of a once vibrant musical tradition.
They rummaged through stacks of old 78 rpm records to find the musical rosetta stones that would make this nearly extinct music form comprehensible to ears unfamiliar with the "krechtz" (moans and groans)of a wailing clarinet or fiddle playing a soulful doina or a foot-stomping freilach played by a kapelye (klezmer ensemble) at full throttle.
The wonderful music is supported by well-researched, well-written liner notes by Zev Feldman, who is a noted authority on not only klezmer but also on Eastern-European, Balkan and Near-Eastern traditional music forms.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004SQZU?v=glance   (1321 words)

  
 JMWC: Jewish Music Megasites
The music categories are somewhat uneven, possibly reflecting the nature of materials on the web (and also that the website provides updates, not complete listings information in the book).
The organization's goals are to share the breadth and depth of Jewish music with a larger audience.
This conference, the first of its kind, attempts to fill some of the larger gaps in Polish music history by highlighting the richness of achievements of Polish composers of Jewish descent and Jewish music in Poland.
www.jmwc.org /jmwc_webres.html   (2278 words)

  
 Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
A Jewish Widow and her Daughter, 1261-1262, trans.
Jewish Views of Royal Monetary Policy in Aragon, 13th Century, trans.
It is written in the form of a dialogue, purportedly between the king of the Khazars and the representatives of various belief systems, culminating with a rabbi.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html   (5504 words)

  
 ShulMusic.org
Shulmusic.org (Shul means Synagogue in Yiddish) is mostly a repository of sheet music relating to Jewish Liturgical Music.
The sheet music available on this site consists of scanned images of music that are in the public domain.
The music on this site represents over 2,000 pages of scanned music some of which was made possible by the kind contribution provided by the members of the choir of the Northern Suburbs Hebrew Congregation of Perth, Australia.
www.shulmusic.org   (399 words)

  
 jewish music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jewish Music in Romania Oy Rumenye, Rumenye, Geveyn amol a land a ziser a fayner!
Jewish music continues to exist wherever there are Jews, which is almost...
Jewish music is as vast and varied as all the music in the world.
www.jewish-search.com /keywords/jewish+music_3.html   (4507 words)

  
 Chazzanut Online - Jewish Sheet Music, Jewish Liturgical Music
All that remains is a booklet with Piano Arrangements of well-known Jewish melodies (1931), and his most important composition, Ahavti, for the Halleil prayer.
I collected and reproduced 110pp of articles, expositions and interviews concerning Chazzanut and Jewish music, that were published in Dutch prewar weeklies, mainly in "The Friday Evening." I added a complete listing of sources.
Annotated references to other important Jewish music resources online, such as music libraries and directories.
www.chazzanut.com   (765 words)

  
 Jewish Music
The European-trained composers that began to arrive in Israel during the 1920's took great interest in the both the music of the various Jewish ethnic groups and the music of local Arabs and Bedouin.
Many musical cultures are practiced alongside each other in Israel, with varying levels of interaction between them.
Included are both arrangements of folk music and compositions that are based on or inspired by traditional music.
www.ortav.com /Jewish.html   (350 words)

  
 Jewish Music Download Links
Jewish Entertainment Resources is your one stop on the internet to search for and find Jewish talent.
We also offer reviews of Jewish recordings; resources for performers and presenting organizations and an extensive international performance calendar.
Whether music is your life or your life is enriched by music, we hope you enjoy your "Chai Note" and that it, in a small way, helps the pieces of the puzzle of your life fall into place.
www.jewishmusicdownloads.com   (305 words)

  
 Jewish music resources on the Internet
The group is seeking to re-awaken the interconnection of Jewish and Arabian music through Sefardi vocal music, Arabian and Jewish instrumental music as well as ancient Israeli and Yiddish songs.
From the JMI web-site: The Jewish Music Institute is an independent arts organisation (non-religious), established in March 2000 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, after 18 years of successful operation under the name of the Jewish Music Heritage Trust.
Collecting and studying all documents pertaining to the musical traditions and the musical life of Jewish communities, past and present are primary tasks of the Centre, as well as, preserving these materials, cataloguing and making them accessible to the scholars and individuals interested in Jewish music.
www.nationalfinder.com /jmr   (4087 words)

  
 Judaism.com - Jewish Music Store
Jewish music is available in almost every genre.
From traditional styles (Klezmer, Cantorial) to modern styles (Rock, Jazz, Pop) Jewish music is an excellent and convenient way to connect with Jewish culture and history.
Celebrate Passover is a treasure of Passover songs from some of our community's most beloved musical artists.
www.judaism.com /music/index.asp   (125 words)

  
 What people are saying about JewishMusic right now
My wife asked our Rav and received the answer that acapella music is OK during sefirah, so Shmais...
Passover Music on the Radio March 20, 2006 at 1:16 am · Filed under Folk & World Music For quite some time, I’ve been disappointed at my otherwise...
The review actually doesn't talk about the music much except for the following few sentences:"Youth" might be refreshing, even inspiring, if...
www.technorati.com /tags/JewishMusic   (402 words)

  
 Jewish Music Archives Links
Music Archives at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Catalogs of special music collections of various cantors, composers, musicologists, teachers, and collectors of Jewish music.
Dedicated to the exploration of Jewish Music, Art and Culture.
www.chipublib.org /008subject/001artmusic/jewish/jewishlinks.html   (369 words)

  
 Jewish Music - JMD the UK's leading on-line shop for Jewish music, Klezmer, Liturgical, Yiddish, L
Jewish Music UK is the leading on-line shop of Jewish music in the UK!
This film, made in Poland in 1935, is based on a story by Shalom Aleichem, the greatest Jewish storyteller.
DVD -KOL NIDREY Kol Nidrey”, from which the movie takes its name, is the most solemn prayer in the Jewish Services.
www.jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk   (831 words)

  
 Zamir Chorale of Boston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A list of publishers of Jewish choral music.
A bibliography (long -- about 30K) of books, articles, scores, recordings, and other material pertaining to Jewish music.
A bibliography of items pertaining to music of the Holocaust.
www.zamir.org /resources   (97 words)

  
 Great Jewish Music: Jewish songs, lyrics, translations, Jewish Midi files and mp3s.
Great Jewish Music: Jewish songs, lyrics, translations, Jewish Midi files and mp3s.
Jewish songs, Jewish midi files, lyrics, translations, Ecards, Jewish music history, and more!
Great Jewish Music is dedicated to teaching Jewish songs with midi, mp3 samples, lyrics and translations
www.greatjewishmusic.com   (302 words)

  
 Jewish Comedy & Humor - Silly Music Broadway Parodies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Show the world your true colors in a Silly Music shirt, starting at $10.00.
In our version the hero isn't just looking for his next card game, he's chasing after his Jewish identity while his mother plotzes.
And to top it off, for many of those 5764 years they’ve been trying to wipe us out...
www.sillymusic.com   (530 words)

  
 Aryeh's Jewish Music Site - Home
The point of this web site is to give people a broad look at Jewish Music.
I've written and rewritten a couple of informative pages which discuss what you should look for when hiring a band for your simcha - be it a 10 piece or a one-man-band.
Also, if you're interested in some specifics of music, there's a page about how to become a good keyboard player, and a page about sequencing.
www.geocities.com /keyboardguy   (232 words)

  
 Jewish Music Links
Polish Jewish Music International Conference - University of Southern California, LA (1998).
Divahn - Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewish music - Austin, Texas.
Tischler Collection of Music by Israeli Composers - William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music.
www.bh.org.il /Music/links.aspx   (542 words)

  
 Dreidel, jewish ceremonial art, israeli traditions, cookie cutters, jewish mysticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jewish puzzles of varying sizes, and number of pieces.
Jewish cookie cutters, and other things Hebrew that can't be found normally.
The Learning Plant is your first choice for Jewish Educational Materials, Judaica, Jewish Music, Jewish Books, or Jewish and Hebrew Software.
www.learningplant.com   (286 words)

  
 Jewish Music WebCenter HomePage
The purpose of the Jewish Music WebCenter is to provide an online forum for academic, organizational, and individual activities in Jewish music.
Information is provided to encourage and support scholarship, enjoyment, creation and general knowledge of Jewish music.
The JMWC presents a new discography of Jewish music to aid the new collector.
www.jmwc.org   (209 words)

  
 Ari Davidow: Jewish mailing list resources
I wanted there to be a central page to which I could refer from all of the websites that I maintain.
I was looking to do something on this new system, "israel.nysernet.org" that my friends Avrum and Chaim had started, and I had been dreaming of a place where people would discuss "Jewish Music"--you know, klezmer and Israeli rock.
The scope of Jewish music is much, much broader.
www.ivritype.com /resources/jlists.html   (483 words)

  
 Hundred's of Links's to Jewish Musicr with thousands of links to Jewish everything worldwide...
Hundred's of Links's to Jewish Musicr with thousands of links to Jewish everything worldwide...
Mostly Music - The Heart of Jewish Music
Jewish music for all ages; Tikkun; Healing with Music and more...
www.jewishlink.net /music.html   (150 words)

  
 Messianic, Worship, jewish & folk music from Israel
Enjoy some of the Israeli Messianic community's favorite songs, interspersed with beautiful scenes from the land of Israel, and interviews with local worship leaders.
It's amazing how differently our favorite Psalms are approached musically in Hebrew.
Some are wel known songs; others may be new to you- all combine to make for a listening feast.
www.musicfromisrael.com   (298 words)

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