Preface 1 Introduction 7 Part One: Background 1. Music All Around 17 2. A Silent Source 18 3. The Ethos of Song 20 4. Instruction and Inspiration 21 5. Institutions of Song 23 6. A Human Need 25 7. Ceremonial Tones 26 8.
Vessels of Song 28 9. Is It Music? 29 10. Dancing into Being 31 11. The Purposes of Cantillation 33 12. Chant and Revelation 34 13. Not Music Alone 36 14. Songs and SacriFice 37 15. Necessary Songs 39 16.
Words and Music 41 17. A Musical Heart 42 18. Singing About Singing 44 19. The Divine Musician 45 20. Work Songs 46 21. Proto-Cantors 48 22. New Year''s Noise 50 23. The Human Family 51 24.
Dancing with Torches 53 25. Defending the Organ 55 Part Two: Torah--Pentateuch 26. All the Music of the Torah 59 27. Ordered Sound 60 28. Words, Words, Words 61 29. Singing Souls 63 30. Melodic Beginnings 65 31. A Musical Species 66 32.
Musical Departures 68 33. God of the Philosophers 70 34. The Invisible Art 71 35. Inventing Hymns 73 36. A Musical Back-and-Forth 75 37. Effect and Belief 77 38. Miriam''s Song 79 39. Singing the Self 81 40.
Music and Iconoclasm 82 41. Song of the Calf 84 42. Keeping Shabbat 85 43. Noisy Vestments 87 44. Distinguishing Sounds 88 45. How Goodly 90 46. Hearing the Holy 91 47. From Stutter to Song 93 48.
Sabbath Peace 94 49. Table Songs 96 Part Three: Nevi''im--Prophets 50. Bad Vibrations 101 51. Terrifying Tones 103 52. Dancing with Timbrels 104 53. Fanfares 106 54. Music, Magic and Manipulation 107 55. Music Hidden and Revealed 108 56.
Beauty and Function 110 57. Sacred Perception 111 58. Simulating Silence 112 59. Composing Legends 115 60. Performing Poetry 116 61. The Silent Treatment 118 62. Collective Healing 119 63. Surprising Sounds 121 64.
Musical Prophets 123 65. Music as Rhetoric 125 66. Parties and Piety 126 Part Four: Ketuvim--Writings 67. The SigniFicance of Song 131 68. Temple Sounds 132 69. The Myth of Musical Purity 134 70. Persuasive Tones 136 71. Textual Tension 138 72.
Everybody Sings 139 73. Theurgy and Concentration 140 74. Public-Private Prayer-Song 142 75. Psalms of Thanksgiving 144 76. The Thanksgiving Impulse 145 77. Musical Maccabees 147 78. A Musical Remedy 148 79. Selah 150 80.
A Virtuoso in the Temple Choir 152 81. Enter in Song 153 82. Tuneful Bones 154 83. Loving Love Songs 156 84. Instrument of Joy 158 85. Songs in High Places 160 86. Particular and Universal 161 87. Musical Awakening 163 88.
Liturgy and Leftovers 164 89. Hallelujah 166 90. Fear the Music 167 91. Sound and Circumstance 170 92. Sonorous Revelation 171 93. Survival and the Song of Songs 173 94. Sing an Old Song 175 95. Ritual Reenactmant 177 96.
Sound Science 179 97. A Singing Community 180 98. Ear of the Beholder 181 99. In Song and War 183 100. Songs of Derision 184 Appendix: Resources in Jewish Musicology 187 Bibliography 197 Index 201.