Books, articles

Rapport entre la cantilation massorétique et la syntaxe biblique, compte tenu d’une nouvelle analyse formelle de la grammaire de la cantilation

A work of musical education by Daniel Karsenti dedicated to the study of cantillation system and the sequence of Biblical accents following the second Tiberian system …

Musical Instruments of the Bible

In this book, Jeremy Montagu uses linguistics resources, organology and ethnomusicology to classify the musical instruments in each book of the Bible and the New Testament …

The sacred Bridge (volume II)

A reference study by the musicologist and composer Eric Werner (1901-1988) about the relations between music and the liturgy of the synagogue and the church in 1st millennium of the Christian era …

Music of the Ancient Near East

Written in 1954, this book by the musicologist Claire C. J. Polin (1926-1995) features a panorama of the music of ancient civilizations from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Phoenicia, Syria and Abyssinia …

Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine

This book of reference written by the musicologist Joachim Braun (1929-2013) deals with music in ancient Israel since the Bronze Age (3200 years B.C.) until the end of the Roman period (4th century A.D.) …

La Danse traditionnelle juive ashkénaze

In this book, the world's leading specialists in the traditonal dance of the former Yiddishland (Eastern Europe) describe this emblematic aspect of popular Ashkenazi Jewish culture …

Les Musigrains – A pedagogical institution (1939 – 1986)

Les Musigrains is a pedagogical and musical adventure lived in Parisian theaters. Thousands of young music lovers who attended more than 400 concerts performed by hundreds of musicians …

Le Passant du pont de l’Europe : Charles-Valentin Alkan, entre tradition et modernité

A book written by Anny Kessous Dreyfuss who makes us discover Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), composer, virtuoso, pedagogue, whose several works are related to Jewish tradition …

Alexandre Tansman – Regards en arrière

The work and personality of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) deserve to be better known, as it was so rich of experiences, and filled with touching people, famous or not. In Regards en arrière, a text written between 1954 and 1958, the composer comes back on his years of training in Poland, and career in France and USA …

Les Juifs d’Iran à travers leurs musiciens

In Iran the Jewish people had a special fate, a long history, which lasted more than 2 700 years in this country. The Jews from Iran liked and played the same music as the other people from Iran, and with the same pleasure. They appropriated the modes of Persian music in their religious chants …

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A musical and gastronomic conference by Hervé Roten, director of the European Institute of Jewish Music

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Cantata Shma Kolenu by Itaï Daniel, finally available on score!

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Release of six new scores by Serge Kaufmann

The European Institute of Jewish Music publishes six new compositions by Serge Kaufmann, including Kaddish for solo cello and Parade…