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REFERENCES

• • Beck, Georg. “Berlin – Jerusalem – Berlin, Der Israelische Komponist Josef Tal.” Oper & Tanz. N.p., June 2000. Web. 23 Dec. 2012.  
  • Beck, Georg. “Josef Tal, in: Komponisten der Gegenwart”, 32. Nlfg., Hanns-Werner Heister, Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer (Hg.), München: edition text + kritik, Nov. 2006.
  • Becker, Heidede. “Ein Stück Stadt ergründen”. Filum Rubrum Verlag, Nauen bei Berlin (2012) , 93 – 110 (D)
  • Blarr, Oskar Gottlieb. “Homage to Josef Tal.” IMI News 95/2 (1995): 12-13. Print.
  • Boehm, Yohanan. “Ashmedai: an Opera by Josef Tal.” Ariel 30 (Spring 1972): 93-95. Print. (E, D, F)
  • Brod, Max. Die Musik Israels. Bärenreiter, 1976. 129-132. Print. 
  • Burns, Jeffrey. “New Virtuoso Music for Piano –
    CONCERTO No.6 for piano and electronics by Josef Tal”, Neue Musikzeitung, October/November 1992.
  • Burns, Jeffrey. “With Josef Tal on Kurfürsterdamm.” IMI News 2000/1 (2001): 17-20. Print.
  • Eckhardt, Ulrich, and Andreas Nachama. Jüdische Orte in Berlin. Berlin: Nicolai, 2005. 153. Print. 
  • Eliraz, Israel. “A Librettist’s Reflections on Opera In our Times.” IMI News 95/2 (1995): 5-7. Print.
  • Eliraz, Israel. “Words, Words and Music” IMI News 90/3 (1990): 1. Print.
  • Espiedra, Aviva. Josef Tal, Sonata for Piano, In: A Critical Study of Four Piano Sonatas by Israeli Composers, 1950-1979. Peabody Institute Of The Johns Hopkins University: Doctor Of Musical Arts Dissertation, 1992. Print. 
  • Fleisher, Robert. Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of Culture. Wayne State University Press, 1997. 67-78. Print.
  • Flender, Reinhard D. “Auf Der Suche Nach Einer Kulturellen Heimat. Stefan Wolpe und Josef Tal – Zwei Deutsch-Jüdische Komponisten aus Berlin.” Neue Zeitschrift Für Musik 03(1998): 10-14. Print.
  • Flender, Reinhard D. “Josef Tal: Musikalisches Vermächtnis in Biblischem Alter.” Josef – Oper in Zwei Akten (Rostock Premiere Program). Volkstheater Rostock, 1996. 7-11. Print.
  • Gluck, Bob. “Electronic Music in Israel.” Canadian Electroacoustic Community. N.p., 2009. Web. 23 Dec. 2012. (The original version of this article was published by The EMF Institute, Electronic Music Foundation, Ltd., in 2006)
  • Gluck, Robert J. “Educating International Composers: the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.” EMS Proceedings and Other Publications N. pag. Web. 24 Dec. 2012.
  • Gluck, Robert J. “Fifty Years of Electronic Music in Israel.” Organised Sound 10.2 (2005): 163-180. Web. 24 Dec. 2012.  Print 
  • Gradenwitz, Peter, “Composers of Modern Palestine,” Musicology, 1.3 (1947): 297-314 
  • Gradenwitz, Peter, “Music and Musicians in Israel,” The Youth and Hachalutz Department of the Zionist Organization (1952): 45-47 
  • Hasson, Nir. “Saving the Holy of Holies of Jewish Texts.” Haaretz, 06 Sept. 2009. Web. 24 Dec. 2012.  
  • Hirshberg, Jehoash. “Josef Tal’s Homage to Else.” ariel A Quarterly Review of Arts and Letters in Israel, 1976 (41) pp 83-93. 
  • Hirshberg, Jehoash. “Josef Tal.” The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Edited By Stanley Sadie, 1992. N. pag. Print.
  • Hirshberg, Jehoash. Tal [Gruenthal], Josef, in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Bd. 25, Stanley Sadie, John Tyrrell, George Grove, London, New York: Macmillan, Grove, 2001, pp. 27-28.
  • Hirshberg, Jehoash. Tal, Joseph, eigentl. Joseph Gruenthal, in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik, Personenteil, Bd. 16, Ludwig Finscher (Hg.), 2. überarb. Aufl., Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2006, Sp. 452-454.
  • Hirshberg, Jehoash. “Josef Tal: Past, Present and Future.” IMI News .1-2 (2008): 15-16. Print.
  • IMI. “Score Catalogue.” Israel Music Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2012.  
  • Keller, Hans. “A Supra-national Israeli.” Spectator 1 Sept. : 20-21. Print.
  • Keller, Hans. “The Jerusalem Diary. Music, Society and Politics”. 1977 and 1979. London: Plumbago Books, 2001. Print. (mainly )
  • Keller, Hans. “The Musician as Librettist.” Opera XXXV(1984): 1095-1099. Print.  (E)
  • Markel, Shlomo. “On Notation for Electro Acoustic Music and Interactive Environment for Composition.” PhD. Thesis Submitted to the “Technion”. Haifa: 1993. Print.
  • Markel, Shlomo. “The Fusing of Art and Science in the New Notation for Future Computer Music” in Tal, Josef.  “Musica Nova in the Third Millennium” IMI (2002): 55-62. Print  (E)  (D)
  • Meyer, Tillma. Die Oper Josef – Analytische Und Dramaturgische Betrachtungen – Magister Artium Arbeit, Technische Universität Berlin. 1998. Print.
  • Miller, Malcolm. “Between Two Cultures: A Conversation with Shulamit Ran.” Tempo 58(2004): 1532. Print.
  • National Library Of Israel In Jerusalem. “Archival Collections at the Music Center.” N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Dec. 2012. 
  • Provobis Film. “Das Spinnennetz” (“Spider’s Web”),  21 September 1989, acting as “Großvater” 
  • Ringer, Alexander L. “Musical Composition in Modern Israel.” The Musical Quarterly 51.1 (1965): 282-297. Print.
  • Ringer, Alexander L. “Tal, Josef.” The New Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 1980. 537. Print.
  • RöderW/StraussHA. in “Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933. International biographical dictionary of Central European emigrés 1933-1945”, 4 Bde., Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München (Hg.), München u. a.: Saur, 1983.
  • Ron, Yohanan. “Expressions of the Twelve-tone Row in the Works of Oedeon Partos and Josef Tal.” Orbis Musicae XI (1993): 81-91. Print.
  • Ron, Yohanan. “The “Where and When” in the Compositions of Josef Tal.” HaArchion Le-musica Israelit 9 (1997): 7-16. Print.
  • Ron, Yohanan. “The Tone as an Idea and a Subject in the Later Works of Josef Tal.” Israel Studies in Musicology VI (1996): 71-80. Print.
  • Ron, Yohanan. The Instrumental Music of Josef Tal: Style and Artistic Concepts – Ph.D. Thesis, Bar-Ilan University (1990). Print.
  • Ron, Yohanan. The Music of Josef Tal – Selected Writings. The Israeli Music Archive, Tel-Aviv University, 2000. Print.
  • Ron, Yohanan. “The Cyclic Concept and the Place of the Tone C in the Works of Josef Tal.” The Music of Josef Tal – Selected Writings. The Israeli Music Archive, Tel-Aviv University, 2000. 51-62. Print.
  • Rosen, Harriet. Josef Tal – Composer from Israel, Master of Music Thesis. Roosevelt University, 1964. Print.
  • Scharberth, Irmgard. Musiktheater mit Rolf Liebermann. Christians, 1975. 96-99. Print.
  • Schlickewitz, Robert. “Eine Erinnerung an den Komponisten Josef Tal (1910-2008)”, in: HaGalil.com, Dec. 5, 2021  
  • Seter, Ronit. “Yuvalim Be-Israel: Nationalism in Jewish-Israeli Art Music, 1940-2000, Ph.D. Dissertation.” Cornell University, 2004. 145-152. Print.
  • Seter, Ronit. “Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv: Different News from Israel.” Tempo 59.233 (2005): 46-61. Print.
  • Seter, Ronit. “Josef Tal, Israel’s Progenitor of Electronic Music”, in: “Israelism: Nationalism, Orientalism, and the Israeli Five”, The Musical Quarterly 97:278-288 (2014) Print.
  • Shaked, Yuval. “Botschafter für kommende Zeiten – Nachruf auf Josef Tal” MusikTexte, Dezember 2008, 68 32:4, 314-345, (2013) 
  • Shelleg, Assaf. “The Dilution of National Onomatopoeias in Post-Statehood Israeli Art Music: Precursors, Contiguities, Shifts.” Journal of Musicological Research 32:4, 314-345, (2013) 
  • Shelleg, Assaf. “Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History” Oxford University Press (November 12, 2014)
  • Shelleg, Assaf. “When Josef (Tal) Laughed; Notes on Musical (Mis)representations” AJS Perspectives Spring/Summer (2016): The Sound Issue
  • Shelleg, Assaf. “Josef Tal on the Cusp of Israeli Statehood, or, The Simultaneity of Adjacency and Oppositionality.” Acta Musicologica Volume 91, Number 2, 146-167 (2019) 
  • Shelleg, Assaf. “Biblocentrism and its Operatic Undoing: Josef Tal’s Saul at Ein-Dor (1955).” Musica Judaica, Vol. 23 (5782/2021-2022), pp. 59-106 
  • Shiloach, Amnon. “Poll Concerning Israel Music.” Masa 44 (1953): 6-8. Print.
  • Shiloah, Amnon, and Edith Gerson-Kiwi. “Musicology in Israel, 1960-1980.” Acta Musicologica 53.2 (1981): 203. Print
  • Starer, Robert. Continuo – a Life in Music. Random House, 1987. 26-44. Print.
  • “The Josef Tal Archives.” National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. (MUS 84) Catalogue  
  • Traber, Habakuk. “Introduction text for Josef Tal’s Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua.” Holtmann, Heidrun (piano). NEOS 11025 (2012)    Print. (E)  (D)  (F)
  • Traber, Habakuk. “Introduction text for Josef Tal’s Essay II.” Holtmann, Heidrun (piano). NEOS 11025 (2012)    Print.  (E)  (D)  (F)
  • Traber,  Habakuk. “Der gewundene Lebensweg eines Geradlinigen. In memoriam Josef Tal”. (The winding path through life of an unswerving man). In: musica reanimata No. 65 – November 2008 (The convoluted life’s journey of a straightforward man: In memoriam Josef Tal)
  • Von Der Lühe, Barbara. In: “Die Emigration deutschsprachiger Musikschaffender in das britische Mandatsgebiet Palästina. Ihr Beitrag zur Entwicklung des israelischen Rundfunks, der Oper und Musikpädagogik seit 1933, Frankfurt am Main u. a.”. Lang, (1999). 
  • Von Der Lühe, Barbara. “Ein Pionier Der Israelichen Musik.” Tribune – Zeitschrift Zum Verständnis Des Judentums 155 (2000): 3-47. Print.
  • Weingarten, Elmar, and Habakuk Traber. Verdrängte Musik. Berliner Komponisten Im Exil. Berlin: Argon, 1987. Print.
  • Wikimedia Commons: Category “Josef Tal”  
  • Wikipedia “Josef Tal”  (with links to different languages)
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