Re: Yiddish poetry

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

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Sylvie Braitman wrote:

> I guess when I say art songs, I mean music that cannot be just written with
> a chord chart.

So you mean polyphonic music rather than homophonic
music?

> But what do you mean when you say "A lot of what is
> thought to be folk music isn't"?

There's a lot of Jewish music that is assumed to be
"traditional", simply because people don't care to
find out who composed the songs in question.


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 Irwin Oppenheim
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