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Psalms and temple chant
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Psalms and temple chant · According to the biblical Books of Chronicles, Levites sang and played in the Temple in Jerusalem, with lyres, harps, cymbals and trumpets, and the psalms were their songbook. After the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, that music was lost. The chanted reading of the Bible and the blowing of the shofar, a ram's horn, did live on in the synagogue. That way of singing also became a source for early Christian chant.
Listening
Listening tip. Hear how Yemenite Jews sing the Hallel psalms at the Passover meal: a cantor and a group, using the same short melodic formulas again and again. That community lived in isolation for centuries, but nobody knows for certain how close this is to Temple chant.
Hallel / Psalms 113-118 · Jemenitisch-Joodse familie in Jeruzalem (opname Sam Eskin), 1955
Cantillatie van de Thora: Genesis 1,1-4 · Chantre Synagogal, 2012
The Three Shofar Sounds · David Hausdorff, 1957
See also
- Jemenitisch-Joodse familie in Jeruzalem (opname Sam Eskin)
- Chantre Synagogal
- David Hausdorff
- Mesopotamia
- Byzantine chant
- Gregorian chant
- Ethiopian church chant
- Klezmer
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