Jewish Music

Résumé du livre

This book details the importance of instrumental and vocal music to the Jewish people. The author surveys Jewish history and provides a broad study of music in Jewish life, including: the role of music in the Bible--the songs that were sung, the instruments that were played, and the functions of each; the use of music in rabbinic times, especially for liturgical purposes in the temple, and rabbinic teachings about music; the roots of biblical chants, cantillation, and prayer modes, and the development of the hazzan (cantor); the importance of the niggun (song without words) to Jewish spiritual life; and, the development of Jewish and Israeli folk music and the recent popularity of "hasidic pop."