RE: "The Lachmann Problem"

[Jewish Music Institute <jewishmusic...>]

I believe that Ruth Davis of Cambridge University has worked on the Lachman
Papers and is the authority on the collection.  She can be contacted at
rfd11 (at) cam(dot)ac(dot)uk
Geraldine




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From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Joel Bresler
Sent: 01 April 2004 16:27
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: "The Lachmann Problem"

Dear friends:

Does anyone have this book and if so can you please report to the list on
the contents of the CD?

Pesah sameach,

Joel

>"The Lachman Problem": An Unsung Chapter in Comparative Musicology
>Including Unpublished Letters and Lectures of Robert Lachman
>Yuval Monograph Series
>By Ruth Katz
>DanaCode 45-337018
>ISSN 0334-3758
>Subjects Yuval: Monograph Series Music
>Publishing Date: November 2003
>Language: English   Hardcover   24x17 cm   422 Pages
>Price: 35 $
>
>The Lachmann Problem tells an unknown story about a well-known German
>musicologist, Robert Lachmann (1892-1939), best known among scholars whose
>interest centers on Arabic music.
>
>After being ousted by the Nazi regime, Lachmann arrived in Palestine in
>1935 to join the staff of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. However,
>many University officials misunderstood his interests, which was primarily
>based on a conception that the unfamiliar field of musicology was a
>"luxury" which the University could ill afford at the time. Presented in
>this volume are letters and documents, published for the first time,
>revealing not only a picture of life in Palestine during the 1930's, but
>providing new information on the early stages of comparative musicology
>and offer new insights into the thinking of its founding fathers. Others
>of these documents betray the daily routines, working style and
>methodology as well as the unanticipated hardships which Robert Lachmann
>encountered. These are embedded in letters to parents, correspondence with
>former colleagues, progress reports, lectures and radio lectures, and
>petitions to academic and bureaucratic authorities and several brilliant
>attempts to introduce non-European music to Europeans, and Orientals,
>Arabs and Jews alike, who were urged to cherish their musical heritage.
>
>These documents were chosen primarily for their relevance to an unsung
>chapter in the history of musicology, which epitomizes Robert Lachmann's
>trying times.
>
>  Comments: CD attached on back cover.





Joel Bresler
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