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currentmusicology-3723	Harran, Don	Musical Research in Israel: Its History, Resources, and Institutions	2019	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3926	128	43	120 Kestenberg, as far-sighted in his own right as was his teacher Busoni, geared his reform to encompass both the past with its 2,OOO-year-old history of Jewish music and the present with its colorful ethnic practices. The history of Jewish music from the 16th century on has been explored along the following lines of investigation: later developments in the various synagogal traditions; the division of the Ashkenazic line into an eastern and a western European branch; the incorporation of melodically fixed chants=- drawing no little sustenance from the style and content of Gentile music-into the synagogue service (e.g., Kol Nidre, Ma-oz Tsur, Adonai Melech, etc.); the paths of assimilation to or alienation from European art traditions in the synagogal music of western Europe; the institution of reform movements in the same; the popular religious songs (niggunim) of the Hassidim; the zmirot or table chants employed for the singing of grace; art music in the Jewish communities of the Diaspora; the life and works of the internationally- famed Jewish composers of the 19th and 20th centuries (e.g., from Mendels- sohn to Schonberg) ; and art music and its composers in Israel from the time of the first waves of immigration to the founding of the State (1948) and down to the present.	cache/currentmusicology-3723.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-3723.txt