Thesis submission ID 96 | created | last updated

Melanie Brown, Musical Exploration of the Sabbath Morning Service in Dublin's Orthodox Jewish Community
PhD, University of Limerick, 2012


Supervisor(s): Dr. Helen Phelan

General specialism: Musicology
Key terms, persons: Jewish clergy and laypeople resident in Ireland since 1920
Key terms, genres, instruments: Liturgical music, vocal

Abstract:
To trace the origins and development of synagogue music in Dublin over the past century; to record and acknowledge exponents of this music; to provide comparisons between the many alternative versions of the Sabbath service practised in Dublin; to ascertain the existence of a style of Jewish music unique to Dublin.
Thesis submission ID 96