meshorerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

meshorer (plural meshorerim)

1. (Judaism, historical) A choirboy or subservient singer to a cantor.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 226:

     One of the outstanding Synagogue singers toward the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century was Israel Lovy- born in Schottland near Danzig (1773). His parents came from Poland. While he was still in his childhood, his parents settled in Glogow, where he became meshorer to Yitzchok Glogow.

   • 1989, Geoffrey Goldberg, “Neglected Sources for the Historical Study Of Synagogue Music: The Prefaces To Louis Lewandowski's Kol Rinnah U'T'filla and Todah W'Simrah—Annotated Translations”, in Musica Judaica, volume 11:

     Only in 1838 were the first moves made towards transformation of the meshorerim into a modern four-part choir.