Re: MiSinai Tunes

[BarMusProd <BarMusProd...>]

Dear Cantor Weiss,

Thank you for clarifying the MiSinai concept. I had not run into that term 
before until I read Cantor Joseph Levine's book some years ago entitled 
_Synagogue Song In America_.

A request. I don't know when you changed e-mail programs, but now your 
letters are filled with HTML coding gibberish to those of us with lousy e-mail 
programs (=AOL) which don't translate HTML. So now all your good information is 
encased between "&nbsp"s and "&quot"s, etc. (see below for how your letter 
looks 
to me). If you can get to the preferences in your program, please switch to 
text only. I know that I will not be the only one who will appreciate the 
change.

Thanks.

Best wishes,
Steve

Steve Barnett
Composer/Arranger/Producer
Barnett Music Productions
BarMusProd (at) aol(dot)com 

In a message dated 10/27/03 10:41:51 AM, SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net 
writes:

>At 10:19 AM 10/27/03, Fred Blumenthal wrote:
>
><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>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, Haftarah trope
>and the Prayer Modes.  </blockquote>
>
>There is no &quot;tradition&quot; of Moses receiving MiSinai Tunes, other
>than tongue-in-cheek.  The appelation is equivalent to the
>expression &quot;as old as the hills&quot; (Sinai is an old hill, after
>all).  Also, MiSinai Tunes are complete Festival tunes and/or
>developed chants in the Ashkenazic synagogue, they are not motives. 
>Examples are the High Holdiay Ma'ariv theme, the various Kaddish chants,
>Ochilo Lo'Eyl, etc.  The youngest of these -- and the most developed
>and widespread -- are the various Ashkenazic versions of the Kol Nidre
>chant.  But even the oldest MiSinai Tunes are much younger than
>scriptural cantillation (Trope).
>
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>Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
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