chazzanut

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1. uncountableJewish liturgical music, as performed by a cantor.

   Why is having a chazan equated with a solo performance? My husband and I do the chazanut for our congregation because the rabbi cannot sing well enough to lead the congregation.

   1996 August 30, Shirah Winicur, “Boring Reform services”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)

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   His [Sholom Friede] numerous collections are retained in the Hebrew Union College library […] containing in all about two hundred numbers, in the style of the eighteenth century. He had a love for the Polish-Jewish songs; and due to that fact, we are in possession of the early Polish chazzanuth and of tunes in Chassidic style.

   1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 230