Le chant liturgique juif éthiopien

Olivier Tourny

(The liturgical Jewish Ethiopian singing)

Peeters, Selaf 443, Ethnomusicologie 8, 2010

Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologist in the CNRS, director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem, dedicated himself 20 years in research around Jewish Ethiopian music, research that he presents in this book Le chant liturgique juif éthiopien. Musical analysis of an oral tradition, a very clear study on the fascinating musical tradition of the Ethiopian Jews.

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