Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/rubin_emanuel Recent documents in Emanuel Rubin en-us Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:50:37 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/rubin_emanuel/4 http://works.bepress.com/rubin_emanuel/4 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:26:03 PDT Listener's guide to four compositions by the Israeli composer, Menachem Wiesenberg, accompanied by a brief biography of the composer and texts of the songs in the original Hebrew with English translations. Wiesenberg was in residence at the University of Massachusetts in February, 2005. This concert of his works was the culmination of his master classes, rehearsals, and public lectures. Emanuel Rubin http://works.bepress.com/rubin_emanuel/3 http://works.bepress.com/rubin_emanuel/3 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:26:03 PDT Introductory essay only, to a critical edition of the two and three-part canzonets of John Travers, mostly settings of the satirist Matthew Prior. Includes corrected texts and notes on the edition. Emanuel Rubin http://works.bepress.com/rubin_emanuel/2 http://works.bepress.com/rubin_emanuel/2 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:26:03 PDT Following Israel's victory in the "Six-Day War" a sense of jubilation permeated Israeli society. Far from participating in that mood, Israeli playwrights took an aggressively critical stance, objecting that life in Israel was becoming misguidedly hedonistic as a result of that success and was straying from the ideals on which the country was founded. Following a brief look at the national context, several important plays confronting Israeli theater-goers are traced over the following years with special attention to the 1983-84 season, in an attempt to explain the point of view of selected playwrights as well as that of the public and incensed officials. Emanuel Rubin http://works.bepress.com/rubin_emanuel/1 http://works.bepress.com/rubin_emanuel/1 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:26:02 PDT This paper defines a new approach to understanding and transcribing Jewish cantillation based on the writings of the medieval Masoretes. It presents an analysis of the rhythmic and structural features at the core of the system of biblical cantillation in the Jewish liturgy, and asserts that those features,rather than specific melodies, are the principal factors to be taken into consideration in understanding the liturgical, semantic, and exegetical functions of cantillation. Emanuel Rubin Jewish Music