Re: Manuscript from Lithuania

[Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>]

Dear Alex,

You  might want to contact  Cantor Daniel Katz at The TS in New York
(dakatz (at) jtsa(dot)edu). He wrote a very interesting article on the 3 part
structure of early 19th Century Meshorerim some years ago using scant
sources. I would also love to see a copy myself as I was toying with the
idea that the 3-voice structure of klezmer music was somehow related to
this. Josh

www.budowitz.com



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>From: Alex Lubet <lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Manuscript from Lithuania
>Date: Mon, Jun 24, 2002, 7:18 AM
>

> Khaverim,
>
> A Twin Cities woman approached me this weekend about a very old manuscript
> in her possession.  It belonged to her grandfather, a cantor in
> Lithuania.  It's quite long, beautifully written in violet ink, and much of
> it is still readable.  Other than that it appears to be in an Eastern
> European choral style, some of it into three parts, for a cantor and two
> assistants, there's little else I can determine, including whether it was
> composed by this gentleman himself or merely copied from someone else's
> work.  This woman and her husband are also interested in knowing whether
> this manuscript might be of value to a collection somewhere, where it might
> be displayed.
>
> This is beyond my areas of expertise.  Is there someone out there who might
> be willing to look at a few photocopied pages and see if a more in-depth
> identification might be made and/or might know whether a Jewish Museum
> could make use of this manuscript?  This woman and her husband are lovely
> people whom I would like to help and who knows?  We might all learn something.
>
> Shevua Tov,
>
>
> Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
> Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
> Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
> University of Minnesota
> 100 Ferguson Hall
> Minneapolis, MN 55455
> 612 624-7840 (o)
> 612 699-1097 (h)
> 612 624-8001  ATTN:  Alex Lubet (FAX)
>
> 

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