Cantors Reconsidered

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Eric Werner, “Jewish Music (Liturgical),” The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1980), vol. 9, p. 623. Ibid. Hans Tischler, “The Early Cantors of Notre Dame,” Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring, 1966), p. 85. Watkins Shaw, “Cathedral music and musicians, Anglican,” Grove, vol. 4, p. 10. Ibid. Kerala J. Snyder, Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck (New York: Schirmer Books, 1987), p. 91. Ibid., p. 96. See accounts of Bach's visit to Lübeck in Snyder (pp. 104–105); and in Christoph Wolff, “Johann Sebastian Bach,” Grove, vol. 1, p. 788. The exact purpose of the trip and details such as to whether Bach traveled all the way to Lübeck and back to his home post in Arnstadt by foot are subject to debate. Wolff, “Bach,” p. 794. See Hermine Weigel Williams, Thomas Hastings: An Introduction to His Life and Music (New York: iUniverse, 2005) for information both on Hastings' and Mason's efforts in this area. John Wesley, Select Hymns, 1761. The seven articles listed by Wesley address the manner of singing and make no specific mention of vocal techniques or details of musicianship. I am grateful to Nancy Rocamora, music director of Judaea Reformed in Durham, North Carolina, for sharing information and insight about present-day Jewish cantors. Department of Liturgics, “Statement 37, The Liturgical Duties of the Presiding Minister,” Lutheran Church of Australia: Commission on Worship (adopted October 2002). http://www.mountolivechurch.org/cantor.htm (accessed July 2, 2007). James A. Rogers, “The Choir Director as Shepherd,” New Notes, September 1986, pp. 3–4. Ibid., p. 4. Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid ArcusDavid Arcus, DMA, is chapel organist and associate university organist of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, where he was worked since 1984. He is a published composer, with organ and vocal works published by Concordia, Hinshaw, and Wayne Leupold Editions.