[HANASHIR:1559] RE: notation

[Judy Caplan Ginsburgh <jerd...>]

You are right, Adrian about alignment and this is a problem.  When I sent the
notation, it was perfectly aligned on my computer.  But it shifted even on mine
when I received it.

Not By Might is a great example of a song that has a difficult rhythm.  I
remember transcribing this song several years ago when music was not available
for it and I wrote it out "straight" and wrote "swing it" on the top as an
indicator of the musically challanging syncopation.  That is a perfect example
of a song that must be listened to.

Another item that comes to mind with all of this is that often when we listen
to a song, we interpret it in the same way as we heard it.  This is great if
you are doing "cover songs" and want to replicate it exactly.  However, there
have been many times where I learned a song (typically one from our traditional
sources) from the written music, performed it, and later I would hear a
recording and my interpretation was completely different.  I will give you an
example.

About ten years ago, I recorded a Shabbat album and wanted to include favorite
Shabbat z'mirot on it.  I researched Sabbath table songs and bought a number of
music books (not other recordings) on the subject.  I sat down at the piano and
played through hundreds of melodies in order to choose the selections I wanted
to round out the album.

One of the songs I liked was a tune called "Shabbos Zoll Zein".  When I played
through it and read the words, I felt it as a slow, beautiful song and this is
the way I recorded it.  It was not a song that was familiar to me previously.
About two years after I recorded it, I heard another recording of it and it was
extremely ubeat in tempo -- the exact opposite from the way I had recorded it.
I still like my interpretation and I am glad I did not hear it before I
recorded it.  It allowed me the creativity to give it my own spirit.

Judy : )

Adrian A. Durlester wrote:

> The vertical alignment works fine--until you run into the limitation of how
> each different MUA (mail user application) treats how many characters per
> line before wrapping!
>
> Adrian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org [mailto:owner-hanashir (at) 
> shamash(dot)org]On
> Behalf Of Bailey, Kent R., Ph.D. (Kent Bailey)
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 2:38 PM
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:1553] (no subject)
>
> Judith, Michelle, Rachel, and all,
>
> I agree it is nice to have information vertically aligned, and it's what
> we are all used to. This should be done if at all possible.  Much easier
> to deal with visually.



--
Judy Caplan Ginsburgh, Award-winning Singer/Music Specialist
       http://www.ax.centuryinter.net/jewishentertainment/judy/index.html
Director:  Jewish Entertainment Resources
       http://www.ax.centuryinter.net/jewishentertainment/index.html
Cantorial Soloist, Touro Synagogue, New Orleans, LA
Past Conference Chair:  23rd Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education