Re: Nusah

[dchevan <dchevan...>]

I'm sorry to bring up this thread again but I need some clarification.  Do the 
recordings that were transcribed come with second book?  Or, are the recordings 
available separately.  Or, are the recordings entirely unavailable?

David
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Seth Rogovoy 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 5:15 PM
  Subject: RE: Nusah



   
    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