Background
Baron, John Herschel was born on May 7, 1936 in Milwaukee. Son of Joseph Louis and Bernice (Singer) Baron.
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In this edition we have the first published modern collection of solo Spanish art songs representative of the entire seventeenth century. Most of the pieces have been taken from recently discovered manuscripts, and some will take their rightful places among the finest seventeenth-century European songs.
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(Music in Jewish History and Culture surveys the broad swe...)
Music in Jewish History and Culture surveys the broad sweep of music among Jews of widely diverse communities, from Biblical times to the modern day. Each chapter focuses on a different Jewish cultural epoch, and, against the background of its principal historical and cultural traits, explores the music and the way it functioned in that society. Proceeding more or less chronologically, the fifteen chapters cover a variety of Jewish musical expressions. Topics considered include performance practices of the ancient Temple, the relationship of Jewish and early Christian music, cantillation, Jewish music in the worlds of medieval Islam and Christianity, Yiddish and Ladino folk music, growth and development of the synagogue liturgy, cantorial song in Europe and the United States, Yiddish theater in Europe and North America, klezmer, Jews in the concert world of the past two centuries, music of the Holocaust, American synagogue music, and music in modern Israel. A unique feature of the book is its carefully placed historical interludes, while illustrations, charts, and a glossary of technical terms supplement the text. The book has been planned to function both as a college text and an informative guide for the lay reader.
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Baron, John Herschel was born on May 7, 1936 in Milwaukee. Son of Joseph Louis and Bernice (Singer) Baron.
Bachelor, Harvard College, 1958. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1967.
Visiting instructor, Boston University, 1963-1964; assistant professor, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1967-1968; assistant professor, University of California, Davis, 1968-1969; professor music, Tulane University, New Orleans, since 1969; chair music department, Tulane University, New Orleans, since 1993; Schawe professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, since 1993. Music critic Vieux Carré Courier, New Orleans, 1972-1979. Music broadcaster Station WWNO-FM, New Orleans, 1974-1982.
(Music in Jewish History and Culture surveys the broad swe...)
(In this edition we have the first published modern collec...)
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Member American Musicol. Society, International Musicol. Society, Spanish Musicol.
Society, Sonneck Society (board directors 1979-1980), American Society for Jewish Music (journal editorial board since 1985).
Married Doris Solomon, April 20, 1973. Children: Elizabeth Joyce Seltzer, Jeffrey Solomon, Miriam Singer.