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Idelsohn on Hatikvah (was RE: creepy: Hatikvah)

> Would somebody please look up A. Z. Idelsohn's "Jewish Music" re:
> "Hatikva"'s melody?
> Francesco

p. 221
"The Yigdal tune [composed by Leon Singer/Meier Leon] can be considered a
compilation of an old folk-motive which is prevalent both in Jewish,
Spanish-Basque as well as in Slavic song....We find the same melodic line in
a Spanish cancion, in the Jewish-SPanish prayer for Dew, in a Polish song,
in the folk song of the Basques, in the symphony Moravia by Smetana, in the
Zionist hymn Hatikva, and ni the Zionist song (in German) Dort wo die
Zeder."

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