Re: stolliner nign, klez database

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

IMUANDWO:

I would think that "Stolliner Nign" is the appropriate title for an instrumental
cut, since it purports to identify the origin of the tune.  "Moshe Emet" might 
be
a prayer text which was set to that tune, and "Footsteps of Bratslav" is Giora
Feidman's title for his personal artistic interpretation of the nign (in the 
same
way that the Klezmorim titled their version of Baym Rebn in Palestina 
"Kramtweiss
Steps Out").

Owen


Ernie Gruner / Cathy Dowden wrote:

> Please can anyone help me with tracing sources:
>
> My klezmer ensemble plays a nigun which I've seen or heard listed with
> several titles.
> We've just recorded it and so I'm looking for more info. for CD cover notes.
> Can anyone clarify where some of the titles have come from or anything else
> about the tune or songs history or meaning or associations?
> Any "old" recordings of the tune instrumentally or better still as a sung
> nigun?
>
> These are my sources (all the same tune):
>
> 1. Footsteps of Bratslav - in Giora Fiedman tune book, ROM productions, and CD
>
> 2. Stolliner Nigun - learnt from Deborah Strauss at Klezkamp West 1998 in
> Fidl Kapelye
>
> 3. Moshe Emet - in "Songs of Joy" edited by Velvel Pasternak - Tara
> publications
>
> thankyou,
> Ernie (klezmer fiddler from Melbourne, Australia)
>
> ps any thoughts on any online database to crossreference klezmer tunes,
> titles, history, recordings?
> Ernie Gruner
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