Re: Eyn Keyloheynu

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Wonderfully thorough and enlightening--Thank you!

It's disquieting that some of the sources that we look to as authoritative 
in themselves are not always faithful, apparently, to the evidence.

Now we can move on to the really important issue, which is:  What 
else--other than this dreadfully uninspired sing-song--can we sing Ein 
Kelokeinu *to*?

Actually, Shlomo had a wonderful one (maybe one of his later melodies--not 
sure); more to come on that anon.  Arba'ah Kolot recorded a pleasant enough, 
but not deeply inspiring, one--though maybe only Shlomo could come up with a 
melody that transcends the rather simple (even if profound in meaning) text 
and send you soaring.  Or Hakesef, if I'm remembering the name right, 
recorded a fine, bracing Sephardic melody, which is no doubt recorded on 
some Sephardic albums, probably some of which I have.  And I think Isabelle 
(?) recorded another with Alhambra?

Do others know of/daven to inspiring alternative Ein Kelokeinus?

--Robert Cohen

>From: Sam Weiss <samweiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Eyn Keyloheynu and other drinking songs
>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 01:01:51 -0400
>
>The innocent ur-text on which the rumor is based (and the only useful
>information
>I've seen on the tune or the composer) is this passage from p. 238 of
>Idelsohn's
>"Jewish Music in its Historical Development," in which I've capitalized
>the most
>relevant sentence:
><<The Chazzan Hirsch Goldberg (1807-1893) served [in Seesen from
>1833] until 1842 and was then appointed Chazzan in Brunswick. Together
>with Julius Freudenthal (Brunswick 1805-1874), Dukal musician, he
>modernized the Synagogue song and published in 1843 a collection of
>songs for solo and small choir in two parts [footnote: 'The title of the
>collection is Gesaenge fuer Synagogen. It became very popular and
>experienced several enlarged editions.']. To this songster Freudenthal
>contributed several tunes, and especially his famous tune for En Kelohenu,
>which he had composed in 1841. THIS TUNE HAS THE TYPICAL
>GERMAN MELODIC LINE, AND IN ITS FIRST PART RESEMBLES A
>GERMAN MELODY OF 1774 (No.1) (see table XXIX), which was reworked
>in 1819 and in 1844 (No.3) and published in 1844.>>

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