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The oriental music broadcasts, 1936-1937 : a musical ethnography of Mandatory Palestine / Robert Lachmann ; edited by Ruth F. Davis.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library M2 .R2386 v.10
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Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 11628 1 disc
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lachmann, Robert, 1892-1939, author, compiler.
- Series:
- Recent researches in the oral traditions of music ; 10.
- Recent researches in the oral traditions of music
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Lachmann, Robert, 1892-1939.
- Music--Palestine--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Palestine--20th century.
- Jews--Music.
- Jews.
- Arabs--Music.
- Arabs.
- Samaritans--Music.
- Samaritans.
- Coptic chants.
- Lachmann, Robert, 1892-1939--Ethnomusicological collections.
- Lachmann, Robert.
- Genre:
- Radio program excerpts.
- Sound recordings.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xliii, 124 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, music ; 31 cm + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Musical ethnography of Mandatory Palestine
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wis. : A-R Editions, [2013]
- Language Note:
- Staff notation.
- Lecture transcriptions in English; songs in Arabic or Hebrew.
- System Details:
- CD digital optical
- CD audio file CD audio
- Contents:
- "On first hearing a genuine piece of Oriental music" (18 November 1936)
- Liturgical songs of the Yemenite Jews (2 December 1936)
- Coptic liturgical chant and hymns (16 December 1936)
- Liturgical songs of the Kurdish Jews (6 January 1937)
- Bedouin sung poetry accompanied by rabāba (20 January 1937)
- Liturgical cantillation and songs of the Samaritans (3 February 1937)
- Men's songs for a Yemenite Jewish wedding (17 February 1937)
- Women's songs for a Yemenite Jewish wedding (3 march 1937)
- Arab urban music : Maqām (16 March 1937)
- Music from the western Arab world (31 March 1937)
- Music from the eastern Arab world (14 April 1937)
- Men's songs for an Arab village wedding in central Palestine (28 April 1937).
- CD contents, disc one. Shirat ha-yam (Songs of the sea, excerpt, Exod. 15:1-4)
- Proverbs 1:1-7
- Lahn (hymn) from the Liturgy of St. Cyril
- Peklaos gar, from the Liturgy of St. Gregory
- Aseret ha-dibberot (Ten Commandments, excerpt, Exod. 20:2-7)
- Qaṣīdit nimr ibn 'Adwān. Aw lamīn
- Shirat ha-yam (Song of the sea, excerpt, Exod. 15:1)
- Sukkāni dhāk al-wādī
- 'At ben 'aṣe 'eden
- 'Ayelet ḥen
- Sā'at r-raḥmān dalḥīn
- Allāh yā Allāh, yā 'ālen bi-ḥālī
- Yā Allāh hal-yōm
- Yā-llāh 'na salak.
- CD contents, disc two. Taqsīm ḥijāz
- Taqsīm ṣabā
- Moroccan song, Ṣaḥbi l-awwal
- Egyptian song, Qad ḥarrakat aydī n-nasīmi
- Shet araban saz semaisi
- Zaffa hamasiyya
- 'Ala dal'ūnā dabke
- 'A-l-hāma, 'a-l-hāma.
- Participant:
- Various performers.
- Notes:
- Transcriptions of 12 broadcast lectures given by Lachmann and transcriptions of the accompanying musical examples; compact discs include the musical examples in both restored and original forms.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Includes preface, introduction and editor's commentary in English.
- Music recorded live, in studio performance, between December 2, 1936 and April 28, 1937 in Palestine.
- ISBN:
- 9780895797766
- 0895797763
- OCLC:
- 864756689
- Publisher Number:
- OT10 A-R Editions
- OT10CD A-R Editions
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