[HANASHIR:11410] Re: Hatikvah--an initial inquiry.

[I. Oppenheim <i.oppenheim...>]

> the person who set Hatikvah to the Roumanian
> folk-song (and there is some question about the
> relationship between a couple of folk songs from
> Moldavia and which one was the primary source) was
> Shmuel Cohen. It was a tune he knew from his
> childhood, before he made aliyah.

Idelsohn thought that the Hatikva was based on a common
European folk motive. He pointed out that the same
motive can be found in the beginning measures of the
famous Yigdal tune (by Leoni) and in a Sephardic
recitative for Tefilat Tal.

Indeed, when I heard this Yigdal for the first time as
a child, I thought it was based on the Hatikva...

Groeten,

  Irwin Oppenheim
  i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl

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