Re: Nusah

[Bob Wiener <wiener...>]

Thanks to Sam and Seth for the recommendation, but I have not been able to find 
information about Volume 2 at the Syracuse University Press website.  I haven't 
yet asked them, but is information available elsewhere?

Bob
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: dchevan 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 12:37 PM
  Subject: Re: Nusah


  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