Monday, December 06, 2004

Mining antiquity for heavenly music - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Mining antiquity for heavenly music - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA: "Intrigued by a mystical translation of prayers in Aramaic, the language of Jesus' time, the Moroneys embarked on serious research into the music of that period.

For melodies, they relied on the early 20th century work of Abraham Idelsohn, a musicologist who collected and studied the songs of Jews from many countries who were settling in what was then Palestine."

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