Re: The Western Wall (Kol Isha)

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

It's not singing, but I've read it described as music many times in
ethnomusicological literature.


Alex Jacobowitz wrote:

> --- Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel (at) attbi(dot)com> wrote:
> > >Some consider it singing.
> >
> > You'd have to be pretty tone deaf to consider that
> > 'singing' ;-)       ek
>
> maybe so. But it´s authentic. You don´t believe
> Miriam et al sang in D freygish, do you?
>
> Alex Jacobowitz
>
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