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Synagogue music

Here are entered miscellaneous collections of sacred Jewish music. Compositions for particular services are entered under this heading followed by appropriate subdivision, e.g. Synagogue music -- Memorial services. Works about the use of music in the synagogue are entered under Music in synagogues.

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• Sacred music
• Jews -- Music
• Judaism -- Liturgy

• Synagogue music -- Day of Atonement services
• Synagogue music -- Ethiopia
• Synagogue music -- Festival services
• Synagogue music -- Germany
• Synagogue music -- High Holiday services
• Synagogue music -- History and criticism
• Synagogue music -- Hungary
• Synagogue music -- India
• Synagogue music -- Passover services
• Synagogue music -- Rosh ha-Shanah services
• Synagogue music -- Sabbath services
• Synagogue music -- Ukraine
• Synagogue music -- United States
• Jewish chants
• Jewish hymns
• Passover music

• Jewish liturgical music
• Jewish religious music
• Jewish sacred music
• Jewish sacred vocal music

• The Sabbath-school hymnal : a collection of songs, services and responsive readings for the school, synagogue and home (Bloch, 1911), by Isaac S. Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oz Joshir : cantata : solo and male quartette : organ or piano accompaniment (Jewish Ministers Cantors Association of America, 1926), by Joseph Rumshinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Neginoth : (Cantillation) : containing Neginoth for Pentateuch, Prophets, Esther and Lamentations, Benedictions, &c. with examples : arranged for the school, religion class and home (R. Mazin, 1912), by Asher Perlzweig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zemirot u-tefilot Yiśraʾel (Boston Music Co., 1915), by Max Halpern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chants religieux des Israëlites (Kaufmann, 1864), by Samuel Naumbourg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zimrath yah = Sabbath service (The Cantors, 1873), by Samuel Welsch, Alois Kaiser, and Morris Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• (Avodat ha-kodesh) Rev. M. Hast's works of sacred music : a complete edition of traditional and original compositions of synagogue music in four volumes (Bibliophile Press :, 1910), by Marcus Hast (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of the principal melodies of the synagogue from the earliest time to the present (T. Rubovits, Publisher, 1893), by William Sparger, Alois Kaiser, and Jewish Women's Congress (1893 : Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fear not ye, o Israel! (G. Schirmer, 1889), by Dudley Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hymns for Jewish worship. (Kitziger, 1894), by Frederick E. Kitziger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fest-Keduschah : für Kantor, achtstimmig gemischten Chor und Orgel : Op.14 (Kaufmann, 1904), by Hermann Zivi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minḥat Yaʻaḳov. (Bi-defus S. Belkhaṭoṿsḳi, 1905), by Jacob ben Raphael and Judah Loeb. Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neginot tefilat maʻariv, li-yeme ha-họl, la-shabatot vẹla-moʻadim (R. Mazin, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tehilot le-El ʻelyon [romanized form] : Synagogen-Gesänge : für Kantor und Chor mit Orgelbegleitung (J. Kauffmann, 1911), by Emanuel Kirschner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shire renanot : shel yamim ṭovim ṿe-shabatot shel ḥupah ṿe-shel milah ... (Nidpesu me-ḥadash ʻal yad Shalom Yosef Pinker, 1879), by Shalom Yosef Penkar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hebräisch-Orientalischer Melodienschatz (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1914), by A. Z. Idelsohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Menagen (Religious Schools of Congregation Beth Israel Anshe Emes, 1925), by Samuel E. Goldfarb and Israel Goldfarb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The synagogue and the church : being an attempt to show that the government, ministeres and services of the church were derived from those of the synagogue (London : B. Fellowes, 1842., 1842), by Campegius Vitringa and Joshua Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schire neimôth : Synagogengesänge für Chor und Solo mit Orgelbegleitung (ad lib.) (Leipzig :, 1913), by Max Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• N'ginoth Baruch Schorr : complete service, according to the traditional ritual, for New Year and Day of Atonement (Bloch, 1928), by Baruch Schorr and Israel Schorr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cantorial anthology of traditional and modern synagogue music : arr. for cantor and choir with organ acc. With an introd. by A.Z. Idelsohn. (Bloch Pub. Co., 1929), by Gershon Ephros (page images at HathiTrust)
• 50th anniversary journal : on the occasion of its Fiftieth Jubilee. (Jewish ministers cantors' association of America, 1947), by Jewish Ministers Cantors' Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected recitatives (Metro Music Co., 1927), by Josef Rosenblatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baal T'fillah. (J. Kauffmann, 1883), by Abraham Baer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rinath Joshua : Recitativen für Cantor / componirt von Samuel Weisser (Pilderwasser). ([s. n., 1927), by Samuel Weisser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodien Schatz (Binyamin Harts, 1922), by A. Z. Idelsohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• N'ginoth Baruch Schorr. Complete service, according to the traditional ritual, for New Year and Day of Atonement. Edited by Israel Schorr. 3d ed. (Bloch Pub. Co., 1952), by Baruch Schorr and Jews (page images at HathiTrust)

• Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1989), by Kay Kaufman Shelemay (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• Schir Zion; Gesänge für den israelitischen Gottesdienst (J. Kauffmann, 1922), by Salomon Sulzer and Joseph Sulzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete musical service for three festivals: Pesa'h (Passover), Shabuoth (Weeks), Succoth (Tabernacles) according to the Union Prayer Book, by S. Schlesinger. 4th ed. (Bloch Pub. Co., 1926), by Sebastian Benson Schlesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schirë Jeschurun; Gesänge für den israelitischen Gottesdienst (J. Kauffmann, 1903), by J. M. Japhet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Schirë Jeschurun : Gess̈ange für den israelitischen Gottesdienst (J. Kauffmann, 1881), by J. M. Japhet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Schir Zion; Gesänge für den israelitischen Gottesdienst (J. Kauffmann, 1922), by Salomon Sulzer and Joseph Sulzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• N'ginoth Baruch Schorr : complete service, according to the traditional ritual, for New Year and Day of Atonement (Bloch, 1928), by Baruch Schorr and Israel Schorr (page images at HathiTrust)

• The music of the synagogue. (National Jewish Music Council, 1963), by Max Wohlberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jewish music in its historical development (Tudor Pub. Co., 1944), by A. Z. Idelsohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studi sul canto liturgico. (M. Capra, 1905), by Sac. G. M. Dupoux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der synagogale Gesang : eine Studie. Zum 100. Geburtstage Salomon Sulzer's und 10. Todestage Louis Lewandowski's (1904) nebst deren Biographien (C. Boas Nachf., 1908), by Aron Friedmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der geistlichen Musik (Gustav Schloessmann's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1903), by Hermann Barth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Orgel in der Synagoge : eine Erörterung (Wilh. Jacobsohn, 1863), by David ben Menahem Mendel Deutsch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lieder der Sabatharier (Orpheus, Magyar Zeneműterjesztő Táraság ;, 1907), by Irene Gerö-Cserhalmi and Jakob Gyula Major (page images at HathiTrust)

• Music for passover service : containing traditional selections for the Hagadah (Hebrew Publishing, 1912), by H. Russotto (page images at HathiTrust)

• N'ginoth Baruch Schorr. Complete service, according to the traditional ritual, for New Year and Day of Atonement. Edited by Israel Schorr. 3d ed. (Bloch Pub. Co., 1952), by Baruch Schorr and Jews (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shire yiśra'el li-lel Shabat (New York : Bureau of Jewish Education, 1918., 1918), by Israel Goldfarb and Samuel E. Goldfarb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schir Zion; Gesänge für den israelitischen Gottesdienst (J. Kauffmann, 1922), by Salomon Sulzer and Joseph Sulzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shir Zion : a Friday evening service (Bloch, 1904), by Salomon Sulzer and Society of American Cantors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs and prayers for the Sabbath eve. (Baum, 1905), by Solomon Baum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Service for the Sabbath evening, according to the Union Prayer Book : for chorus of mixed voices with organ accompaniment (Schirmer, 1912), by James H. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zemirot vẹ-tishbahọt le-lel Shabat ([s.n.], 1947), by Israel Herbert Levinthal and Israel Goldfarb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schirë Jeschurun; Gesänge für den israelitischen Gottesdienst (J. Kauffmann, 1903), by J. M. Japhet (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sabbath-school hymnal : a collection of songs, services and responsive readings for the school, synagogue and home (Bloch, 1920), by Isaac S. Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yismach Moshe ([Trio Press Inc.], 1926), by Joseph Rumshinsky and Jewish Ministers Cantors' Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)

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