Re: FW: Music Question -- Nigun Bialik

[SamWeiss <SamWeiss...>]

Maybe.  The first line is 
lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai-lai.

At 12:12 AM 10/6/02, you wrote:
>Is this the same melody that is used for the dance Hora Bialik,
>choreographed by Yoav Ashriel in 1962?
>
>Helen
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net>
>To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 10:05 PM
>Subject: Re: FW: Music Question -- Nigun Bialik
>
>
> > This a classic Hassidic nigun.  It appears in Volume X of Idelshon's
> > "Thesaurus" (published in 1931) without any title or commentary, simply as
> > Nigun #65.  The association of this melody with Ch. N. Bialik is due to
>its
> > being a favorite at the Oneg Shabbat cultural sessions which he presided
> > over some time after settling in Tel-Aviv in 1924.  Apparently the name
> > "Nigun Bialik" had not yet caught on by the time Idelsohn made his
> > compilation.  It does appear by that title in Harry Coopersmith's 1942
> > collection "Songs of Zion," and probably in earlier sources earlier as
>well.
> > _____________________________________________________________
> > Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
> >
> > At 06:57 PM 10/5/02, Seth Rogovoy wrote:
> > >can someone help out?
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Jessica Walsh [mailto:flutemusic (at) earthlink(dot)net]
> > >Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 5:38 PM
> > >To: rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net
> > >Subject: Music Question -- Nigun Bialik
> > >
> > >
> > >Dear Seth,
> > >
> > >I am including "Nigun Bialik" in a book of tunes for flute. I have
> > >looked in several books as well as online for its origin, and I have
> > >asked friends (who claim to have danced to it) just where this tune
> > >is from. I'm none the wiser.
> > >
> > >I suspect it is wrong to list it as being from Israel since the tune
> > >predates 1948.
> > >
> > >Do you know which country, town or region I should credit?
> > >If you have time and don't mind doing so, would you tell me?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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