Re: Lern Steiger and my mode article

[Sandra Layman <sandralayman...>]

Dear Josh,

I'd be thrilled to pay you for a copy of your complete article, should you
decide to make it available.
Please let me know if you do.

Many thanks!
Sandy
...who wishes she were a publisher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Horowitz" <horowitz (at) budowitz(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: Lern Steiger and my mode article


> Cantors please correct me if I'm off base here, but the Lern Steiger (i.e.
> study mode) seems to be more a motive structure or collection of motif
> patterns than a bonified mode or Steiger of its own. The motives used in
the
> Lern Steiger remain fairly consistent from mode to mode. I probably should
> have included them in a chapter on their own in my article, but was told
> that the article was already too long, so I cut many things back in hopes
of
> it seeing the light of day.
>
> People still write to me about that article, a short summary of which
> appears on Ari's Klezmer Shack. The original article is 63 pages, and
deals
> exhaustively mainly with klezmer modal modulation patterns. Year after
year
> it has been accepted for publication in Musica Judaica, but for some
reason
> or another has not made it to print. It was written in 1993. I've sent it
> out to oodles of people in manuscript form (can't do that anymore). It has
> been brissed and used as a syllabus in many workshops and Universities,
yet
> remains "unborn."
>
> If any publishers are interested in publishing this in hard copy, do write
> to me. Joshua Horowitz
>
> > Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:
> >
> >> For a fabulous article on the modes by our own Josh Horowitz, see this
>
> >> http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/horowitz/horowitz.klezmodes.html
>
> > I'm actually missing one steiger in the list:
> > the Lern steiger!
> > Isn't it used in Klezmer?
> >
> > Irwin Oppenheim


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