Passport to Jewish Music - Softcover

Heskes, Irene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093367645X ISBN 13: 9780933676459

Publisher: Tara Publications, 1997

(Tara Books). An exhaustive examination of the history, form, and meaning of Jewish musical traditions, with enough general historical background to place the music in solid context. The author has effectively marshalled her vast subject matter with a topical and chronological approach. This book will be appreciated and useful to laymen as well as students, academicians, and professional musicians. 6 x 9 .

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Book Description:

A roughly chronological survey of virtually every important development in the history of Jewish music, organized in topical chapters.

About the Author:

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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