Re: Book title

[Sam Weiss <samweiss...>]

Your book is "Manginoth Shireynu" published in 1939.  Note that the last page 
says Shlosha Nigunim Nosafim, which accounts for the discrepancy between 223 
and 226 songs.

> 
> From: Fred Blumenthal <xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com>
> Date: 2003/10/28 Tue PM 02:53:14 EST
> To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Subject: Book title
> 
> I recently bought a book in bad condition at a used book sale (front cover 
> missing) which has turned out to be a good source of religious melodies. I 
> would very much appreciate help in determining the title, editor, date of 
> publication, etc.  It's about half an inch thick in paperback, published 
> by Hebrew Publishing Company on Delancey Street in New York, and on the 
> back has advertisements for Moshe Nathanson's "Shireynu" and "Manginoth 
> Shireynu."  It occurs to me that this might be "Manginoth Shireynu," but 
> the advertisement says there are the words to 223 songs in "Shireynu" and 
> their melodies in "Manginoth Shireynu."  This volume contains 226 melodies 
> (sic), the music in manuscript, the titles printed in Hebrew, and the 
> words in transliteration typed under the notes.  There are numerous songs 
> that weren't familiar to me, some labeled "folkstune" (sic), some as 
> "Palestinian" (so it's before 1947), some are by Nathanson, some by other 
> composers, and some are unlabeled as to source.  Of particular interest is 
> #181 on page 78, "Etz Zeh Alef," labeled "folkstune," but clearly the 
> famous Mark Warshavsky song, "Oif'n Pripitchek."  Any help would be very 
> much appreciated - is it simply "Manginoth Shireynu?"
> 
> Fred Blumenthal
> xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com
> 
> 


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