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"THE MUSIC OF THE BIBLE REVEALED":
Johanan Rakkav's Photo Galleries, which include an "online museum" containing photos, illustrations, musical scores and summaries of Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura's work, plus information on Temple worship and ancient Middle Eastern and Greek music

Tabernacle Celebration by David Michael Holmes-Smith, which plans to use Haïk-Vantoura's restituted melodies and "biblical" harps and lyres in its liturgy

Amazon.com, where one may order the English book and the original CD ("The Music of the Bible Revealed")

BIBAL Press (a subsidiary of D. & F. Scott Publishing), publishers of Haïk-Vantoura's English book

Harmonia Mundi, publishers of Haïk-Vantoura's original recording La musique de la Bible révélée

Susan Owen's Web site, which contains links to basic MIDI files of the Psalms

"BIBLICAL" INSTRUMENT MAKERS:
The House of Harrari, Jerusalem (makers of "biblical" wire- and nylon-strung harps and wire-strung, ten-string lyres)

Jubilee Harps, Evansville, IN. (American makers of "biblical", wire-strung, ten-string lyres) -- E-mail may be sent here

Davidic Harps by David Michael Holmes-Smith, maker of "biblical" lyres with ten nylon strings (based on a design from the Bar Kokhba coins of 132-135 CE)

Trumpets of God (e-mail address) by Randy Spencer (biblical shofarot of ourstanding quality and tone)

SITES OF RELATED INTEREST:
Nancy's Harp (a psalmist ministry) which has comments and links to other sites

"The Song of Songs" Web Page (which includes some information on Haïk-Vantoura's melodic rendition)

"The Song of Ruth" Web page (includes a sample musical score from Ruth based on Haïk-Vantoura's method and created by John Wheeler)

The Reunion Institute, sponsor of King David's Harp, Inc. and a number of other projects

The Associates for Biblical Research, who introduced its subscribers (including John Wheeler) to Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura's work in March 1982

Southwest Radio Church, one of the first U.S. ministries to announce Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura's discovery (and the source of two sets of radio interviews with John Wheeler on the topic)

Adoration Inc., agent for Christian pedal harpist Greg Buchanan (who also plays the lyre made by Jubilee Harps)

Apex Publishing Services (Psalmody Links Page) by Donna Moss (a good place to look for basic resources on Psalms and psalmody)

The Honeybee in the Garden, LLC -- part of Debra Band's Judaic Artwork Web site, offering a limited facsimile edition of her illuminated manuscript of the Song of Songs in Hebrew

A page on the Genevan Psalter (sponsored by a church in The Netherlands) containing a large assortment of MIDI files (harmonized by Hans Prince)

ChantCD.com: Michael McDevitt's site offering a wide selection of Gregorian chant recordings and other resources

SITES ON HEBRAICA AND JUDAICA:
Ancient/Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Typefaces (Dr. Howard M. Berlin's site)

The Hebrew Alphabet (part of a larger site by Walter Kenaston)

Ancient Hebrew Research Center

THE THIRD TEMPLE MOVEMENT:
Olam ha-Mikdash, a planned life-size model of the Temple in Israel (to be open to the public)

The Temple Institute, which is researching and preparing furnishings for the proposed Third Temple

Light to the Nations, the site of Rabbi Chaim Richman (one of the prime movers of the Third Temple movement)

Beged Ivri, the site of Reuven Prager (who makes Hebraic clothing, coins for the half-shekel tax, and other items)

OTHER VIEWPOINTS ON ANCIENT AND EARLY MUSIC:
Ancient Music (@medieval.org)

Jewish Liturgical Music (@infoplease.com)

Professor David P. Wright's Academic & Research Site (this one has a most extensive and valuable bibliography)

The Musicology and Organology of the Ancient Near East by Richard Dumbrill -- a massive synthesis of the source materials, especially cuneiform texts and accompanying illustrations

An interesting site by Dennis F. McCorkle (New Amsterdam Music) discussing the kinnor as portrayed on the Bar Kokhba coins of 132-135 A.D. (including photographs), plus some speculations on how the kinnor was tuned and played. (The documents may also be accessed at The Book of Jesus by Dennis F. McCorkle.)

Professor Joshua Jacobson's site giving instruction in Jewish cantillation of the Hebrew Scriptures. (N.B.: Prof. Jacobson believes, and warns his students in his footnotes, that Haïk-Vantoura's work proceeds from false assumptions. As our site demonstrates, we believe the truth is quite the reverse!)

Professor Scott Noegel's online bibliography of works on ancient music (the professor may be reached by e-mail here)

Musical Astrology as a Therapeutic Tool, a page discussing (among other things) the possible relationship between Mesopotamian music theory and Mesopotamian astrology

 Harpist from Ur (in English) and Sumeryjska Harfistka z Ur (in Polish) by Liliana Osses Adams (other listings in the Internet Cultural Magazine Zwoje-Scrolls include Adams' "Notes of a Harpist" in English and Polish)

The Lyre of Ur: a project (in the UK) that has reconstructed a playable version of the "bull lyre" of Ur (Liliana Osses Adams is one of the project's supporters)

ARTICLES CITING HAÏK-VANTOURA'S WORK:
Origins of Nations - Volume 1, Issue 4: "The Harp of David and the Harp of Ireland" (article by John Wheeler)

The Sacred Calendar (Part One) (article by John Wheeler)

The Harp of David (article by John Wheeler on the Harp Spectrum site)

Harp Spectrum: Author Biography -- John Wheeler

Credenda/Agenda (the printable version is here)

Spindleworks.com: "The origin of our Psalm melodies"

Biblical Perspectives: "The Rock Book" (PDF format) by Dr. Samuele Bacchiochi

Biblical Perspectives: "End Time Issues" (PDF format) by Dr. Samuele Bacchiochi

Selected excerpts from the "Yogurt & Beyond" columns of the late 1990's (Saskatchewan)

Christopher Lamenter: Research paper on music in the Old Testament

STUDENT RESOURCES:
University of Oregon: Music Discographies (Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura)

University of Oregon: Music Scoreographies (Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura)

Universita degli Studi di Magarata, Italy (course curriculum and bibliography)

University of Saskatchewan Libraries

ORB Bibliography: Selected Works on Ancient, Late Ancient and Medieval Music

UC San Diego: Recent Library Acquisitions: Judaic Studies (July-October 1994)

UC San Diego: Recent Library Acquisitions: Judaic Studies (February 1995)

Medieval Sourcebook/UNF Medieval Europe: Listening to Medieval...

Folk Harp Journal Archives: H -FHJ

123student.com - Student Written Resources

Simpson College, Dunn Library: New Acquisitions, November 2000

Macquarie University Library: Acquisitions Department - Books

MIT Music Library News 5-94

DISCUSSIONS AND NEWS GROUPS:
Shamash.org Archives (1)

Shamash.org Archives (2)

Shamash.org Archives (3)

Shamash.org Archives (4)

Early Music List (regarding "The 150 Psalms" scores)

earlyMusic.net - Early Music Network (text by John Wheeler)

NEWS.CS.BRANDEIS.EDU

Yahoo! Groups: Music of the Bible Revealed -- Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura's discovery and more (group created by John Wheeler)

Harp Mailing List 1999/05 Archive: [Harplist] John Wheeler

VAST: musiikki: Korkea veisu (Finnish) on "Cantique des cantiques" and other recordings

www.welltrainedmind.com: "We've been listening to the following CD's..."

WEB DIRECTORIES:
Religionsorg.com/Judaism/Arts/

KOL-ISRAEL/Society/ReligionandSpirituality/Judaism/Arts/

Directory for Arts

Allzone: Society/Religion and Spirituality/Judaism/Arts/Music

Omniseek.com

Women Composers

FullWebInfo.net -- Arts/Top/Society/Religion and Spirituality/Judaism...

Euroseek - Web Directory

LifestyleOpportunity.org: "Discover the best websites for Society/Religion and..."

Beebware.com: Directory - Arts

TranquilEye.com: Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/ Judaism/Arts/

Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Judaism...

PandaSeek: Society/Religion and Spirituality/Judaism/Arts

JBMall Web Search

1upsearch.com: "One of the most powerful Search Engines on the Web..."

surf-site.com - Society/Religion and Spirituality/Judaism/Arts

Open Directory - World Languages/English/Society/Religion...

Search Category - Arts

Webazine.com Search Results: Arts

Google Web Directory - Society/Religion and Spirituality ...

JewishHotline.com

Rizacelik.net -"Arts in Society/Religion and Spirituality/Judaism..."

Society/Religion and Spirituality/Judaism/Arts by MainSeek

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS:
IAWM by date (includes listing of Haïk-Vantoura)

IAWM: Jewish Music (Haïk-Vantoura)

Harp - Harpa - Arpa - Harfe - Harpe / Harp Links: Publishers

Musica et Memoria: Obituary of Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura

Myra Zakai: Discography

EKF Playlists: Playlist 301

EKF Playlists: Playlist 351

Ce soir recital chant et piano (Voice-and-piano recital in Brittany, beginning with a Psalm of David as deciphered by Haïk-Vantoura)

Etat récapitulatif des enregistrements sonores réalisés par André Charlin, Décembre 1998 (Swedish site that mentions "Magie des Instruments", text by Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura, spoken by Linette Lemercier, Helios MA301)

Creation Tips: Past news of interest to Christians

A broadcast schedule from the Netherlands (December 2000)

Guests of the Texas Early Music Project (text by John Wheeler)

Light to the Nations - Rabbi Chaim Richman - Guestbook (text by John Wheeler)

Alliance France Home Page: Quoi (the longtime host of Institution Roi David's Web site; includes announcement of Haïk-Vantoura's death)

David King's Web site on King David

ISCM composer's brochure 1998 (Psalm 20 by Shinuh Lee, who drew some inspiration from the "dominant musical characteristics" of Haïk-Vantoura's restituted melodies)

A Japanese-language site (most of the bibliography is in English or European languages)

Josh's CD Collection (a personal Web site, one of our more unusual listings!)

Greenwich Publications -- the site of Bob Fisk (Canada) who writes: "Even though I have a purely secular view of matters, there is much here in common with your page on Sacred Music in Antiquity."
If you have any further questions, or if you've found any broken links on this page or any other on this site, please feel free to contact me. -- John Wheeler
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