Re: creepy: Hatikvah

[Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>]

Yeah, Smetana used the same basic melody, but supposedly, the German
childrens song "Alle meine Entchen" (All my little ducklings) which uses
the
same theme in major, predated the Smetana minor version. They seem to
all have a basic source dating back to G-d knows when, but all seem to
have some central European common ground childrens song. 

Marvin wrote:
> 
> ----- 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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