[HANASHIR:11659] point of information

[erik contzius <contzius...>]

> The popular "Ein
> Keloheinu" is, alas, a German drinking song....

Actually, it's not a drinking song... wish i had a
dime for every time i hear that said. it is attributed
to Freudenthal, and until i see some real scholarship
to prove otherwise, i'm stickin' to it. why? because
there are other through composed hymns written in
europe for the synagogue which are in the same style.
if i had some clear, ethomusicological evidence that
this indeed was a drinking song, and thus a folksong
without attribution, found and/or notated with other
words, i'd buy it.

But it's never listed as, "trad." or "folk"... it's
listed as "Freudenthal." don't forget the composers!
although the "trad" shema is a viennese waltz, it was
still written by sulzer.

erik


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