Field recordings description from the Solomon Rosowsky Collection
Abstract/Description: | The Solomon Rosowsky Collection field recordings were made by Rosowsky in pre-state Israel between 1936 and 1938. They were recorded to demonstrate the execution of Hebrew Biblical cantilation symbols in different regional practices. Collection includes recordings of the Ashkenazi, Babylonian, Kurdish, Samaritan, Sefarad, Yemenite and Yeshurun (Jerusalem) traditions. Recordings may be searched by these traditions as well as by performer, title, cantillation symbol, or the LOC title of the Biblical book being chanted (i.e. Song of Solomon, Esther, Genesis, Ecclesiasticus, Psalms, etc.). |
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Subject(s): | Bible. Song of Solomon Bible. O.T. Esther Bible. O.T. Ruth Bible. O.T. Lamentations Bible. O.T. Ecclesiastes Bible. Genesis Bible. O.T. Leviticus Bible. O.T. Joshua Bible. O.T. Job Bible. O.T. Daniel Bible. Psalms Cantillation -- Israel Cantillation -- Instruction and study Jewish chants Psalms (Music) |
Date Issued: | 1936 |
Title: | Recording Inventory for Solomon Rosowsky Collection Field Recordings. | |
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Name(s): |
Rosowsky, Solomon, 1878-1962 Ne'eman, Y.L. Ṿayngarṭen, A. Kasar, Shelomoh Ḥayim. Nahari, Yiḥyeh. Baṭaṭ, Yeḥezḳel. Mizraḥi, Barukh Shemuʼel. Tsedaḳah, Gavriʼel. Tsedaḳah, Yitsḥaḳ. Solomon Rosowsky Papers and Field Recordings (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) |
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Type of Resource: | sound recording-musical | |
Genre: |
Sound recordings. Field recordings-Israel. |
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Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1936 | |
Place of Publication: | Between 1936 and 1938] | |
Physical Form: |
sound recording sound disc |
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Abstract/Description: | The Solomon Rosowsky Collection field recordings were made by Rosowsky in pre-state Israel between 1936 and 1938. They were recorded to demonstrate the execution of Hebrew Biblical cantilation symbols in different regional practices. Collection includes recordings of the Ashkenazi, Babylonian, Kurdish, Samaritan, Sefarad, Yemenite and Yeshurun (Jerusalem) traditions. Recordings may be searched by these traditions as well as by performer, title, cantillation symbol, or the LOC title of the Biblical book being chanted (i.e. Song of Solomon, Esther, Genesis, Ecclesiasticus, Psalms, etc.). | |
Identifier(s): | 221347053 (oclc) | |
Note(s): |
Y.L. Ne'eman, singer ; Yeḥezḳal Baṭaṭ, singer ; A. Ṿayngarṭen, singer ; Gavriʼel Tsedaḳah, singer ; Yitsḥaḳ Tsedaḳah, singer ; Barukh Shemuʼel Mizraḥi, singer ; Yiḥyeh Nahari, singer ; Shelomoh Ḥayim Kasar, singer. Recordings were recorded and cut live by Rosowsky in pre-state Israel, 1936-1938. Solomon Rosowsky was born in Riga, Latvia on April 7, 1878. His father, cantor/composer Baruch Leib Rosowsky (1841-1919) was Oberkantor at the Great Synagogoue in Riga from 1871-1919. Solomon Rosowsky helped found the Society for Jewish Folk Music at St. Petersburg in 1908. After studies at the Imperial Conservatory with Rimsky-Korsakov, Liadov and Glazunov, he graduated in 1911. In 1920 he returned to Riga, where he founded the first Jewish Conservatory of Music. He began editing his father's musical works, publishing only one of two volumes of "Shirei Thefiloh" in 1924 with the Juwal Publication Society. Solomon Rosowsky emigrated to Palestine in 1925. As a composer, he provided incidental music for the newly emerging Hebrew language theatre. He also collected and edited an anthology of Zionist folk songs (Mi-zimrat ha-aretz = Chansons de'Erets Israel), published by Salabert in 1935. The bulk of Rosowsky's musicological research was on the cantillation symbols used for the Hebrew Bible. He presented a paper on this topic in 1934 to The Musical Association in London, later publishing his findings as The Music of the Pentateuch. From 1936-1938 Rosowsky made field recordings of Biblical cantilation in pre-state Israel. In 1947, he and his wife relocated to the U.S. with the hope of publishing a book on his cantillation research. The Cantillation of the Bible was published by New York's Reconstructionist Press in 1957. Solomon Rosowsky spent his final years teaching at the Cantors Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the New School for Social Research. He died in 1962. Sung in Hebrew. Rachel Rosowsky gave her late husband's papers to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary in May 1963. |
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Subject(s): |
Bible. Song of Solomon Bible. O.T. Esther Bible. O.T. Ruth Bible. O.T. Lamentations Bible. O.T. Ecclesiastes Bible. Genesis Bible. O.T. Leviticus Bible. O.T. Joshua Bible. O.T. Job Bible. O.T. Daniel Bible. Psalms Cantillation -- Israel Cantillation -- Instruction and study Jewish chants Psalms (Music) |
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Library Classification: | ARC MUS 9 | |
Restrictions on Access: | While these files are not under copyright, we request that use of these files give credit as follows: "Courtesy of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary." | |
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