RE: Nusah

[Seth Rogovoy <rogovoy...>]

  At 02:29 PM 9/20/02, Bob Wiener wrote:

     Are there any standard works or articles addressing these issues?

  For the Ashkenazi world, I highly recommend this recently published work
which, if the author realizes his plans, will eventually include additional
volumes with recorded examples:
  "Musical Tradition Of The Eastern European Synagogue: History And
Definition" by Sholom Kalib
  Hardcover, 320 pages, Syracuse University Press

  This link has a good price:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0815629273

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  I second the nomination: this is an incredible work of scholarship -- two
volumes, one primarily with musical transcriptions, the other with text
coordinated to the transcriptions but also going much deeper into the
history and development of nusach. Also the author has written and organized
it in such a way that it is useful for both the non-music-reading layperson,
as well as those for whom transcriptions and music theory is a first or
second language.

  Seth Rogovoy
  author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots
and Soul"
  http://www.algonquin.com/catalog/pagemaker.cgi?1-56512-244-5
  "invaluable" -- New York Times
  "indispensable" -- George Robinson, Jewish Week