RE: Help: looking for a word

[Mel Korn <mkorn...>]

Perhaps this thread can put Madonna to a well deserved rest.

Perhaps then a melding of the 2 words - K'neyshomo?

Now all we need to do is come up with the right word for Body, and we will
have something!

Mel Korn
Toronto


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Sylvia Schildt
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 1:34 PM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: Help: looking for a word


I think the term neshome covers the spiritual side - consider also the word
"kneytch" or "crease" which alludes to the special musicality of klezmer.

Sylvia Schildt
Baltimore Maryland



on 10/17/02 1:05 PM, elliott_simon (at) dca(dot)net at elliott_simon (at) 
dca(dot)net wrote:

> To me, the cantorial frameworks that provide klezmer with
> its "jewishness" are akin to the african american spirituals that
> provide jazz with it's "soul"....is there a yiddish term for
> this "soul" or feel of the music that makes it klezmer....that is not
> just a translation of the word soul.....if there isn't...there should
> be...can we agree on one?....this is for a review I am
> doing...thanks...elliott
>
>


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