Re: synagogue music - niggun and nusakh

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Marvin,

Zemiros comes from one of the Hebrew words for song or tune, zemer (as
does the name of the choirs Zamir).

Rochel Sara was actually describing zemiros when she wrote ""Nigun"
actually comes into its own during the singing around the
Shabbos table, and is actually quite fluid...."

Referring to the Encyclopedia Judaica Dictionary, I was using the
second definition in my post:

Zemirot (Heb. "songs"), term used
(1) by Sephardi and Italian Jews for biblical verses preceding morning
service and called by Ashkenazim Pesukei de-Zimra;
(2) by Ashkenazim for table songs sung during Sabbath meals.

My reference to synagogues referred to the practice in some to have
Sabbath meals at which zemiros are sung.

Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin Margoshes <physchem (at) earthlink(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: synagogue music - niggun and nusakh


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>-----Original Message-----
>From: robert wiener <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Cc: Rachel Heckert <heckertkrs (at) juno(dot)com>
>Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 6:56 AM
>Subject: Re: synagogue music - niggun and nusakh
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>>Do the non-Orthodox out there sing zemiros regularly - at
>>synagogue/temple or at home?  (Maybe you'd call them z'mirot.)
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>If someone will tell me the meaning of "zemiros' ("Z'mirot"), I'd be
glad to
>respond to the question, at least as far as the practices in my home
and my
>reform/conservative synagogue.
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