Re: Idelsohn mystery

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

At 05:48 PM 9/12/00 +0100, you 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)


From: Yuval, Studies of the Jewish Music Rersearch Centre. Vol. 5, The Abraham 
Zvi Idelsohn Memorial Volume. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1986. Eliyahu 
Schleifer, "Idelsohn's Scholarly and Literary Publications: An Annotated 
Bibliography,"  p. 88.

"Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz IX [1932] contains Jewish folk songs 
in the Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian and Ukrainian languages. Each song is printed 
with text underlay of the first stanza. As stated in the intro., Idelsohn 
planned to publish the full texts with translation and commentary in a special 
volume, but the plan never materialized."


"Let me not criticize any man until I've walked a mile in his moccasins."

Reb Sitting Bull






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