RE: Tunes on Keynote

[Geraldine Auerbach <jewishmusic...>]

Theoretically our database Keynote, (when fully filled in), which is
primarily a compendium of individual songs/pieces, can have a fully
searchable melody line - even for each version or setting of a well known
liturgical piece, such as Lecha Dodi.  (it also has provision for full
instrumental listings for each piece).

If anyone is willing to have a go at filling it this in for a particular
piece. we would be happy to supply the cd with the programme and
instructions. It is very user friendly and Lloica will give advice as whe is
doing the cataloguine of the JMI library.  When you have documented it all
on Keynote itself, (and its very easy to insert the tune from your computer
keyboard), this is instantly and easily uploaded to the Website
www.jmi.org.uk .  You can search for a tune even in the wrong key and even
if the phrase you ask for is not at the beginning of the piece.

You can have a look at the prototype with a fair amount of information
already on the Website www.jmi.org.uk There are not many tunes in so far and
they may not be operational on the web yet, but, if anyone would like to
enter some. We will give full support.

Best wishes

Geraldine

PS I attach below an artivle the appeared in The Times of London in 18
March, re the opeing of the Jewish Music Institute Library.

[NL]March 18, 2003 [NL][NL]New library for Jewish music[NL]BY DANIEL CREWE


"THROUGHOUT the ancient history of the Jewish people," begins Percy A.
Scholes's entry on "Jewish music" in The Oxford Companion to Music, "we find
music mentioned with a frequency that perhaps exceeds that of its mention in
the history of any other people." [PARA]Geraldine Auerbach, the director of
the Jewish Music Institute, talks of Jewish music as "a red hot cable that's
been going from Bible times and is going to infinity". And a leap will be
taken towards maintaining this cable today, with the inauguration of the
Jewish Music Institute Library at the School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS). The event takes place as part of this month's Jewish Arts Festival,
and on the day of the Jewish festival of Purim. [PARA]Aided by a grant from
the Heritage Lottery Fund, the library will be the first repository in
Britain for scores, manuscripts, recordings and books of Jewish music. This
includes everything from the liturgical to pop, its different forms having
been heavily inspired by the countries in which Jews have lived over the
years. [PARA]"The material would have been in people's lofts," Auerbach says
of the new library's extensive holdings. "Some collections have been donated
that would otherwise have been distributed or destroyed." [PARA]As part of
the new project, the JMI is cataloguing its recordings, songbooks and scores
on a new database, Keynote, which is available on the internet and which
features biographies, photographs, reviews, instrument listings and a
tune-finder. "We hope our library will become an international source of
information," Auerbach says. [PARA]The library's collections include books,
journals and compact discs from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 70
volumes of printed Jewish music donated by the cantor Benjamin Stein; and
the books, manuscripts, concert programmes and original compositions of
Emmanuel Fisher, the music director of the London Jewish Male Choir for 21
years. [PARA]Auerbach is particularly proud of the correspondence between a
woman in America and Benjamin Britten's estate on the text for one of his
oratorios. "It does not exist anywhere else," she says. [PARA]The opening
evening of the library, organised with the music department at SOAS, will
feature Yemenite songs, Yiddish tango and klezmer. There will be an
inauguration by Dr Christian Meyer, the director of the Schoenberg Institute
in Vienna, and a tribute to Malcolm Williamson, a patron of the JMI, who
died this month. [PARA]The association between the two institutions is
longestablished. The JMI is an independent organisation but is based in SOAS
with a remit to work with the music department for mutual benefit. The
department of music has a full-time lectureship in Jewish music and the JMI
organises international conferences there. "Next year we are doing one on
the fiddle in folk music and one on the circulation of Jewish, Arab and
Christian song in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages", Auerbach says.
[PARA]With the JMI's goals including the promotion of heritage beyond the
Jewish community, Auerbach has acted as an adviser for this month's Jewish
Arts Festival. The events include a talk on Ethiopian Jewish music by
Alexander Knapp, the Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music at SOAS; an
illustrated talk on Shostakovich and the Jews; an evening of Baghdad Jewish
Music traditions in Bombay; and a concert of Spanish-Jewish music in
Spitalfields. [PARA]As well as supporting cultural festivals, the JMI has a
number of projects that are ongoing, many of which have been made possible
by funding from the national lottery. This has allowed the JMI to present 50
Millennium Awards, which help individuals to promote understanding between
communities through Jewish music. [PARA]The JMI has also established the
International Forum for Suppressed Music, whose president is Sir Simon
Rattle, and has established a Forum for Promotion of Israeli-Arab Dialogue
through Music, which has organised workshops for Israeli and Palestinian
children. [PARA]Preserving materials in its new library and making them
accessible to the public fits in with these ideals. "What we do is not for
Jews, it's from Jews," Auerbach says. "We welcome everybody."
[PARA]Reservations: 020-8909 2445. [NL]www.jmi.org.uk





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