Re: Had Gadya

[wiener <wiener...>]

Robert Cohen has reported to us that the article on Chad Gadya was as
follows:

Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Vol. 4, Special Issue,
1981-82.Chad Gadya collected by Abraham A. Schwadron

Bob Wiener

-----Original Message-----
From: Judith R Cohen <judithc (at) yorku(dot)ca>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Sunday, March 11, 2001 6:37 AM
Subject: Had Gadya


>>  There is an
>> interesting compendium from that marvelous resource, Smithsonian
Folkways,
>> of recordings of chad gadya from many different traditions.  I
don't recall
>> if it includes ladino and can't put my hands on it at the moment
>
>Yes, it does include Ladino, and there is a lengthy article by the
same
>ethnomusicologist in "Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology", UCLA< but
I
>can't remember the year, 1970-something. Abraham Schwadron is the
name
>of the author/the compiler of the Folkways recording. SHould be
findable
>through  Smithsonian Folkways - I do have it lurking somewhere around
>the house.
>
>There's a wonderful Tunisian version , very danceable! on an old LP
>"Haggadah de Pesakh" (album notes , such as they are, basically nil,
in
>French) .
>Voice of the Turtle has an interesting Pesakh cd with comparative
>versions.
>I have a lovely Moroccan version which I recoeded years ago from an
old
>Tangier couple, he singing in Hebrew/Aramaic and she in Ladino, in
>alternating verses; Tamar and I do sing it but haven't recorded it.In
>fact, we taught it to the Crypto-Jews of Belmonte the first time we
>spent Pesakh with them some years ago and they have transmuted it
into
>Portuguese (actually, a version already existed as a Portuguese
>folksong). I'm sure someone will record them singing it one of these
>years and conclude that it's a medieval pre-Inquisition survival
(even
>though it wasn't documented in any Jewish tradition before
>15__-something) .
>Sorry for the lack of concrete references, I have a bunch of
deadlines,
>Judith
>
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