Re: Idelsohn mystery

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

I'd like to know, too.
Lorele

Abbi Wood wrote:

> I'm currently using Idelsohn's _Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies_
> vol. 9  - The folk song of the East European Jews (in the KTAV 1973
> edition). The (large) collection of Yiddish songs are presented with
> romanized text, but only for the first verse of each song (under the
> melody). In the Introduction, Idelsohn states that the texts will be
> published in a separate volume. Does anyone know whether this volume
> actually happened? I can't find it in any library catalogues. I know that
> some of the texts are available in other volumes, such as Cahan, Kipnis
> &c., from which Idelsohn got quite a lot of the songs, but I'd like to
> know whether the others were ever published. I'd be grateful if anybody
> could shed any light on this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Abbi
>
> (in an unfortunately chicken-free and blue-power-tool free library)
>

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