Aggudat Shirim
Aggudat Shirim (Collection of Songs) was one of several collections of synagogue music published by Samuel Naumbourg between 1847 and 1874. It included a scholarly article about Jewish music.
Credits
Samuel Naumbourg, from Aggudat Shirim (Recueil de Chants Religieux et Populaires des Israélites), first ed. (Paris: S. Naumbourg, n.d.[1874]). Courtesy Sacred Music Press, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, New York.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.
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