This website is devoted to various histories of music. This section gives eight divisions on some history of Jewish music, from an individual at the University of Baltimore.
1. A Great Musical Tradition
2. The Synagogue and its Music
3. The Chazzan (or Cantor) and his Cantillation
4. An Italian Development of the Sixteenth Century
5. The Partial Reintroduction of Instrumental Music
6. The Ninteenth- and Twentieth-century Reform Movement
7. Jewish Popular Song
8. Some Modern Investigations and Opinions
http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~pfitz/play/ref/Histjew.htm