Tina Fruhauf

Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful presence of the organ in synagogue music and in the general musical life of German-speaking Jewish communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the development of a new organ music repertoire as a paradigm for the changing identity of modern Jewry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780195337068
• ISBN-10: 0195337069
• Artikelnr.: 24878325

Autorenporträt

Tina Frühauf is Editor at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale in New York. Aside from activities as professional organist, her scholarly work explores Jewish music in Western Diaspora. Her German and English publications include articles in the Journal of Jewish Music and Liturgy and Orgel International, numerous book chapters and encyclopaedia contributions on the German-Jewish music culture, organs and organ music, the piano and the violin.

Inhaltsangabe

- The Jewish Literature of Early Modernity
- Pictorial Sources of Different Cultural and Religious Provenance
- Meshorerim as the Forerunners of Organ Accompaniment
- The Synagogues of Prague and Venice
- From Liturgical Reforms to a New Musical Identity
- The Synagogue Organ in the Context of Organ Building Traditions
- Intermezzo: Sharing the Console-The Synagogue Organist
- The Synagogue Organist in the Framework of Christian Traditions
- Organists at the New Synagogue in Berlin
- The Impact of the Organist Question
- From Lewandowski to Schalit: The Stylistic Development of Jewish Organ Music
- Departure and Destruction: Organ Music in the "Spiritual Ghetto"
- Limitations in the "Land of Opportunity"
- The Organ in Israeli Culture-A Bridge between East and West
Notes, Bibliography, Index-Names, Index-Places