Re: ancient Sephardic melody

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

HI, sorry I can't put a lot of time against this now. I know with 100% 
certainty that the melody is on at least one of these recordings (and may 
be on both:

Levy, John
Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (Bevis Marks)
Smithsonian             08961

Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Songs for the Sabbath
Congregation Shearith Israel, The

The notes to one of these two recordings reference the melody's supposed 
antiquity.

I think chances are good it is also in: Sephardic Oriental Songbook, by 
Velvel Pasternak and/or Sephardic Songs of Praise, A. Lopes Cardozo 
(book/CD combo.)

Hope this helps.

Joel


At 04:04 PM 8/7/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Joel (et al.), can you in some way identify--or do you know--*which* 
>melody is identified by Sephardim this way?  Has it been recorded anywhere?
>
>Thanks --
>
>Robert Cohen
>
>
>I know
>>that
>>the Sephardim by tradition date one of their "song of the sea" melodies
>>back to biblical times; don't know if this has ever been confirmed or
>>disproven.
>
>
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