Re: Yiddish poetry

[Lori M Simon <lorelecs...>]

Definitely Gelbart falls into this category.  Mordecai Yardeni did much
of this, as well.
Lorele


On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:18:03 -0800 "Sylvie Braitman"
<curlySylvie (at) hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> I mean an accompaniment that is written out because the composer has 
> a
> specific intention beyond chords indications.
> One example is when I brought a Rossini aria to a jazz pianist: he 
> got very
> frustrated because he wasn't able to accompany me properly. He was 
> a
> beautiful pianist, but wasn't used to read that many notes that 
> fast. So
> it's not a polyphonic, homophonic issue. Just an issue of 
> appropriate
> writing for different languages.
> I do care about the composer and always mention the author of any 
> song. But
> when Mordekhai Gebitig composes Dray Tekhtele for example, it is 
> not
> musically on the same level of complexity as Lazar Weiner's songs. 
> They just
> belong to different genre. It doesn't mean one is superior to the 
> other.
> Sylvie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "I. Oppenheim" <i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl>
> To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Yiddish poetry
> 
> 
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >  Groeten,
> >  Irwin Oppenheim
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