Re: Alternate Chad Gadyo melody

[I.Oppenheim <i.oppenheim...>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Fred Blumenthal wrote:

> This may be an elementary question for this group,
> but I'm not finding the melody I'm looking for on the
> Internet.  I made a songbook for our annual family
> reunion/seder supper, and included the usual melody
> for Chad Gadyo:  mi fa sol-do la-fa mi re do.  But my
> family remembers one in minor, beginning mi fa mi re
> do ti la.  Can anyone jar my memory as to the rest of
> this melody?  Use solfege syllables if necessary.
> And thank you.


The second motive you quoted occurs in Hans
Bloemendal's recording of Chad Gadyo. But it is likely
that this motive also occurs in other tunes for this
song.

If you wish I could send you a mp3 of Hans Bloemendal's
recording.


Groeten,

  Irwin Oppenheim
  i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl
  www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/

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