Re: Misinai

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

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Fred Blumenthal wrote:

> According to tradition, not only did Moses receive
> the written Torah on Mt. Sinai, he also received all
> of Oral Torah, and he also received the MiSinai Tunes
> - the motives that are the direct ancestors of Torah
> trope...

"Misinai Tunes" is a methaphorical term used by
chazzanim to designate a body of old, highly revered
Ashkenazi High Holiday tunes, that developed in
medieval Germany. Among these tunes are "Kol Nidrei",
the great "Aleinu" and the mussaf kaddish.

The designation "Misinai Tunes" was popularized by the
great musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, but it's
purely methaphorical as there is no talmudic tradition
or anything such that these tunes were given to Mosheh
on Mt. Sinai.


 Groeten,
 Irwin Oppenheim
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