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Maqām and liturgy : ritual, music, and aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn
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- Creator
- Mark L. Kligman
- Format
- Books; Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 267 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 26 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 9780814332160, 0814332161
- OCLC
- ocn227572515
- Audio examples on accompanying CD.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index.
- Introduction:Tthe spontaneity of prayer -- Background. Cultures in contact through music ; History of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn ; Syrian liturgy and prayer books -- Sabbath morning service. Syrian musical life: the Maqām system as practiced in Brooklyn ; Sabbath morning service ; Birkhot ha-Shaḥar and zemirot ; Shaḥarit ; Torah service and Musaf ; Overall design of the Syrian Sabbath morning service -- A Judeo-Arab synthesis. The Maqāmāt and the weekly biblical reading ; Aesthetics, performance practice, and maintenance of Syrian liturgy -- Conclusion: Judeo-Arab synthesis in the Syrian Sabbath liturgy
- CD contents. Birkhot ha-shaḥar, seyga formula (David Tawil) -- ha-Shem Melekh (David Shiro) -- Zemirot seyga formula (David Tawil) -- Barukh she-amar ; Halleluyah, hellelu kel be-kadsho (Moses Tawil) -- Mahalalakh (Isaac Cabasso, Hyman Kaire, Meyer Kairey) -- Mahalalakh ; Nishmat kol ḥai (Gabriel Shrem) -- Nishmat kol ḥai (Isaac Cabasso) -- Nishmat kol ḥai (Ephraim Avidani) -- Ḥawwid min hina (Zaki Murrad) -- Boʼi be-rinah ; Shavʼat aniyyim (Isaac Cabasso) -- Semeḥim be-tseitam (Yehezkel Zion, Ephraim Avidani) -- Magen yishʼi ; Shavʼat aniyyim (Moshe Dweck) -- Il-ḥabib (Zakrīyā Aḥmad) -- Kel ḥabib ; Kaddish ; Ashrei ha-am (Moses Tawil) -- Mizmor le-David (Yimlokh ha-Shem le-Olam) -- Keter ; Hu eloheinu to melody Yershalayim shel zahav (Yehezkel Zion, Ephraim Avidani)