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Re: Re[4]: Itsy Bitsy Spider and other Liturgucal Themes

In a message dated 98-02-26 02:00:37 EST, you write:

<< The person who was worried that it might upset people to learn that a 
 tune they are singing is based on a nursery rhyme (or a drinking song) 
 shouldn't be so concerned. >>

It would be naive....Arguments over the use of "profane" or secular melodies
go all the way back to the use of Piyutim, which are sung to (then popular)
Arabic melodies.  Most of my favorite Chassidic nigunum are related to Russian
folk songs....The origin of the melody is irrelevant.  The point to make holy
through usage...how we elevate the mundane is the ikar.

Lori

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