Re: A shot in the dark

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:39:07 +0100
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Spookyjon
There may not be many people here but I did read your message.
Jewish music covers a number of areas I think you're searching for Klezmer
type music, although I could be wrong. There are loads of links to Jewish
music on the web. One that I use is http://www.shulmusic.org which may at
least start you off - although it may not be exactly what you want there are
links to other sites worth visiting. As far as the music itself is
concerned, Jewish music is just like ordinary music, except the language is
Hebrew/Yiddish/Aramaic. It's nothing like Indian music which I think is
what you were implying. There's no different theory or scales to have to
contend with.
For your particular musical interest you may want to have a look at sites
featuring Israeli composers/singers since I guess that's the kind of music
you're looking for, rather than the music sung inside a synagogue.
Hope this is of some help to you and, yes, I was reading!
Regards,
Helen (Administrator for the London Cantorial Singers)
"spookyjon" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> It doesn't appear that anybody posts on hear, but I'll give it a try.
>
> I know next to nothing about Jewish music, so there's the disclaimer.
> Basically, I was wondering if anybody had some good resources for Jewish
> music theory, scales, stuff like that.
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> There's a handful of songs that have a certain feel to them, somewhere in
> the vicinity of the interaction of violin with clarinet, where one or two
> parts just have a nice Jewish feel to it, a pinch of klezmer in a rock
song.
> I'm vaguely interested in the compositional stuff behind that.
>
> But nobody is reading (I suppose).
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