Re: Cross-fertilization of Jewish and non-Jewish music

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Judy:

Fascinating to read your posts as always.  I guess I have my work cut
out for me.  (Garment industry phrase?)  I'll see if I can do some of
the research online at www.nypl.org

I do have recordings with liner notes of Jewish related music by all
the composers and in all the genres you mention except (unless I am
mistaken) of the music of Clemens von Franckenstein (1875-1942).  He
doesn't show up on CD Now or in my most recent Schwann Opus (Winter
1996/97) or on my "Juden in Deutschland" CD (because it is for
1250-1750, perhaps also because he wasn't from Deutschland).

Thanks for giving me an interesting homework assignment.

Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Fertig <fertig (at) brandeis(dot)edu>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Cross-fertilization of Jewish and non-Jewish music


>Bob:
>For finding material on Jewish themes in classical music.....There
are
>books, dissertations and articles, yes.
>
>You can do some searching for this in a music bibliographic databases
at
>your local library... but here are some ideas of "classical music"
>composers to start:
>
>Some of the obvious examples come to mind:
>
>Ravel, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Mahler and Dessau.
>
>Then you have examples such as Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and
Copland.
>
>There are several composers such as Shostakovich and Clemens von
>Franckenstein (1875-1942) who used Jewish themes as a kind of musical
>protest or resistence.
>
>We can also find articles on Jewish influence in troubadour music,
organ
>music, church music and so forth. It is not possible to list all the
>sources here.
>Judy
>
>
>At 05:39 PM 12/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Is there any material (e.g., books, articles, dissertations,
>>discographies) on Jewish musical themes in classical music,
especially
>>the less obvious compositions?  I do think that I saw something in
the
>>Jewish Theological Seminary collection of dissertations from the
>>Cantorial School, but it was basically on the more obvious
>>copositions, e.g., Bloch.
>>
>>I would also be especially interested in material on the use of
>>non-Jewish themes, popular or classical, in Jewish liturgical music
>>(besides the Aleinu tunes and Adon Olam settings to popular song).
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>
>