26/11/2015
Wagner antisemite
Can the greatness of one of the most remarkable musicians of the Western world excuse some positions among the worse that can be ? And moreover : can it justify that we ignore them ? …
03/08/2015
Notre langue d’intérieur
This small book features a collection of autobiographic texts, funny and moving, from the singer Talila, with photographs by Franck Juery …
03/08/2015
American Klezmer – Its Roots and Offshoots
This collective work, edited by Mark Slobin, focuses on "American Klezmer - its roots and ramifications". Contributors include Michael Alpert, Walter Z. Feldman, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Henry Sapoznik, Frank London or the violinist and composer Alicia Svigals …
03/08/2015
Voices of a People – The Story of Yiddish Folksong
An accessible and documented work, Voices of a People by Ruth Rubin is today the most important book available on Yiddish songs …
03/08/2015
Old Jewish Folk Music – The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski
This book of reference features the writings and the works from the collecting of Yiddish songs and klezmer tunes done by the ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski (1892-1961) in Soviet Union …
29/07/2015
Encounters of East and West in Music – Selected Writings
This book by the Israeli musicologist Hanoch Avenary studies several fundamental subjects, such as the music instruments of the Bible, the concept of modality in Jewish music, the parallels between synagogue and church music, and Jewish folklore …
29/07/2015
The Cantillation of the Bible – The Five Books of Moses
This documented work of 669 pages features a full study of the cantillatin of the Bible, illustrated with numerous musical notations …
29/07/2015
Le Piyyut de David Hassine
This book is dedicated to David Hassine (1722-1792), one of the masters of liturgical Jewish Moroccan poetry, from which the piyyutim were known all around the world …
29/07/2015
Le système cantilatoire de la Bible et son expression musicale dans les traditions juives des communautés méditerranéennes
A PhD by Mag Tayar, organist in the Grande Synagogue of Marseille and Doctor in musicology, dedicated to the cantillation system of the Bible in the Jewish traditions of Mediterranean cultures …
29/07/2015
Le principe de la modulation dans le fragment babylonien d’Ur : U.7/80 (XVIIIème siècle av. J.C.) (à partir d’un instrument de l’époque non identifié : le « gis za mi »)
This study about the modulation in Babylonian in the 18th century B.C. was written by the musicologist Jean-Claude Sillamy (1932-2016), a specialist of Antique music (Sumer, Babylon, Mesopotamia…) …
