[HANASHIR:6202] Re: Who Wrote, Recordings, and More

[Adrian Durlester <durleste...>]

Carol:

This is a great idea. In the past, when Rick Mann and I made Hava Nashira tape 
sets, we provided full attribution for all the songs on the tape, wherever 
possible. It often took some doing. Also, the tapes we made rarely contained 
whole pieces minutes long, but rather maybe just a verse and chorus or 
two-enough to remind the listener of what he/she had learned at HN. In the same 
way, simple lead line sheets with chords, rather than full blown 
transcriptions, may be adequate for the purposes you suggested.

What you suggest is a pretty massive undertaking, but may be possible, with 
lots of effort. Asking the faculty to have such a list prepared in advance is 
pretty difficult for them. There would need to be one or several people at HN 
whose sole function would be to keep track of what was sung/taught, and 
verifying the attribution, name, etc.

In the interim, I recommend this list as the best resource for each of us to 
help the other make such identifications. There are a number of us with 
extensive libraries of recordings and music, and others with extensive 
knowledge of who wrote what, etc. If one can only identify the tune by sound, 
then one of the various forms of notation that have been tried on this list 
might be one way, and another might be using small audio files (you can sing a 
few seconds into your computer's mic and then attach it to an email-if it's a 
small file-and then people can hear the tune you are referring to.)

Adrian

Adrian A. Durlester, M.T.S. - durleste (at) home(dot)com
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Editor, Bim Bam, Torah Aura Productions
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Music Director, Congregation Micah, Brentwood, TN
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Hebrew Instructor, The Temple, Nashville, TN
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-----Original Message-----
From:    Carol Boyd Leon cbleon (at) hotmail(dot)com
Sent:    Wed, 07 Jun 2000 18:04:14 GMT
To:      hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
Subject: [HANASHIR:6198] Re: Who Wrote, Recordings, and More


I'd like to suggest to the HN staff that they keep track of and then print 
up a list of the music presented, particularly at services and in the dining 
room, by (1) title, (2) songwriter, and (3) whether and where sheet music is 
available... and (4) possibly cite a recording or two as well.

As I listen to my tapes from the conference, I hear, for instance, a wealth 
of songs called Halleluyah or Shiru L'Adonai or something similar.  But for 
those of us who learn better from sheet music, it would be very worthwhile 
to be able to know how to look it up.  Of course, if HN could work out the 
logistics for providing the sheet music, that would be even better.

And, even where no sheet music is available, it would be good to have a way 
to separately identify by songwriter all the songs with sound-alike titles 
in our temple service folders or in our personal files.

Carol Boyd Leon
Burke, VA
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