Re: FW: Music Question -- Nigun Bialik

[Lionel Mrocki <amrocks...>]

That's great!!

SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net wrote:

> 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?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

--
Regards,

Lionel Mrocki


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