RE: drinking songs

[Jonathan Gordon <jbgordon...>]

i still wonder about the ein keloheynu, sam. surely freudenthal is credited
wtih writing it but i have always heard that it is a reworking of a Germanic
Drinking song. Of course, the source was always disparagers who wanted to
weaken the importance of traditional music, and i was also annoyed to hear
it. I wonder what is the source of that repeated rumor. Come on, you must
have heard it. And who was Freudenthal, anyway?
The tune, which i still use to close shabbat morning services, is peculiar
with its use of secondary dominant harmony, very much not traditional jewish
practice, but out of the european tradition.
so, drinking song or other, i wonder about it.
jonathan

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