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Cantorial Recordings Reimagined

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Cantorial Recordings Reimagined --- 2014-12-15

Cantor: (Judaism) Also called Chazan, a person employed to lead synagogue services, esp. to traditional modes and melodies Schizophonia: The condition of sound or sounds separate from their sources "MUCH of the history of cantorial practice can be understood in the content of a fundamental tension between tradition and innovation, between the desire to preserve insular musical practices and the urge to adopt and mimic musical developments occurring outside the Jewish community." - YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews of Eastern Europe