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Re: creepy: Hatikvah
- From: Marvin <physchem...>
- Subject: Re: creepy: Hatikvah
- Date: Wed 29 Dec 1999 14.23 (GMT)
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Ungar <dungar (at) slb(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: creepy: Hatikvah
> I'm sure you were thinking about "Vltava" (River Moldau), by Bedrich
Smetana
> (1824-1884), Czech (Bohemian) composer. Indeed, it sounds an awful lot
like
> "Hatikvah", and I have always been told that the melody of "Hatikvah"
takes
> its inspiration directly from it...
>
> Dan
>
As I understand it, both used the same folk melody.
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