From 'frummie' back to Shulamis

[Agustin . Fernandez <Agustin.Fernandez...>]

> (How did we get involved in Yiddish
> linguistics on a Jewish music list?
> Mendele is usually where such discussions
> take place.)
>
> Lee Friedman

Yeah, let's get back to music.

Has Robert Wiener had a full  answer to his question on Shulamis
yet? I certainly don't have a full answer, but Mark Slobin mentions
another song in page 190 of Tenement Songs: the Popular Music of the
Jewish Immigrants (University of Illinois Press, 1982).

This song, Slobin informs us, is entitled 'Ot der brunen, ot der'. He
goes on to show similarities between this tune and 'Ah. fors'e lui'
from Verdi's  La traviata. However, the tune he quotes next to
the Verdi is confusingly titled 'The Oath' and not 'The Well' or
anything that may resemble what we are told the Yiddish title means.
I leave those who know Yiddish, or the plot of Shulamis, or both, to
clarify this inconsistency.

Agustín



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