Re: Nusah

[SamWeiss <SamWeiss...>]

There are no recordings of Kalib's work available.  The currently available 
Volume I is divided for convenience into two parts, together comprising a 
single volume. Part One has text only, and Part Two has musical examples only.
Looking again at the official description below, I don't know where the 
figure "320 pages" comes from; Part One has 277 pages and Part Two has 227 
pages.  Kalib plans to produce future Volumes which will be anthologies 
accompanied by recordings.  In my opinion a more useful project would have 
been recordings of the currently available Volume One, which gives the 
theoretical foundation of Nusach.

For those seeking recordings of classical cantorial recitatives accompanied 
by matching musical notations (though not always exact transcriptions), 
there is only the "Golden Age of Cantors" set from Tara
http://jewishmusic.com/index.asp?FID=3101&ACT=4&ID_Prd={FBEB56B1-5A48-482F-A6AD-C1AD881CFB10}&RND=175737
The book and recordings are also available separately.

Also of ineterest may be the "T'filot Ya'akov" by Jacob Mendelson Book & CD 
set, which is a precise transcription of one cantor's rendition of 
Shacharit L'Shabbat in the "Golden Age" style.  It's also available from 
Tara, or from the Cantor's Assembly  (http://cantors.org/).  The Cantor's 
Assembly site also has many Nusach handbook/recordings combinations, though 
they are "how-to" compilations, not theoretical discussions.

-S.W.

At 12:37 PM 9/23/02, dchevan wrote:
>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: <mailto:rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net>Seth Rogovoy
>>To: <mailto:jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>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
>>>
>>>-------------
>>>
>>>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>http://www.algonquin.com/catalog/pagemaker.cgi?1-56512-244-5
>>>"invaluable" -- New York Times
>>>"indispensable" -- George Robinson, Jewish Week