[HANASHIR:6554] RE: Tisha B'Av

[Adrian Durlester <durleste...>]

Again, I'm just playing gadfly, and not expressing a personal opinion:

There is a vast difference, for some, between "nusach" or the chanting of El
Malei Rachamim or Viddui, and an actual musical composition set to those
texts, accompanied by instruments and/or choir. In addition, songs like
HaKotel or Al Kol Ele and others which have been suggested as appropriate
are in yet another genre.

Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org [mailto:owner-hanashir (at) 
> shamash(dot)org]On
> Behalf Of Marsha Fensin
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 5:48 PM
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:6551] RE: Tisha B'Av
>
>
> Hi All,
>     If you think of Jewish song as merely song, then perhaps
> somber occasions
> shouldn't be observed with song; however, if you look at Jewish
> song as part of
> the tradition, as a gate to the Jewish soul, as parts of it
> actually having been
> transmitted Mi Sinai, then it is entirely appropriate.  A funeral
> wouldn't be
> the same without chanting Esa Einai or Mizmor l'David or El Male
> Rachamim.  Yom
> Kippur would not be the same without the chanting of the Viddui,
> and chanting
> Psalms appropriate to TishaB'av or compositions that have the
> theme or idea of
> the holiday are entirely appropriate. Song is NOT merely adjunct to the
> tradition, it IS part of the tradition.
> Marsha Fensin
>
>

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