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The New York Times great songs of the Yiddish theater / arr. for voice, piano, and guitar ; lyrics transliterated [and music editing by Zalmen Mlotek] ; selected by Norman H. Warembud ; foreword by Molly Picon.
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Musicals--Excerpts--Vocal scores with piano.
- Musicals.
- Songs, Yiddish.
- Jews--Music.
- Jews.
- Genre:
- Vocal scores.
- Songs.
- Popular music.
- Excerpts.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 vocal score (256 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Great songs of the Yiddish theater
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., ♭1975.
- Contents:
- Abi gezunt
- Ay-ay-ay
- Azoy iz geven, azoy vet es zayn
- A bis'l libe, un a bisele glik
- A brivele der mam'n
- Dayne
- Der alter tzigayner
- Der nayer sher
- Di grineh kuzine
- Dos pintele yid
- Du bist dos likht fun mayne oyg'n
- Du fehlst mir
- Eyn mol in leb'n
- Farges mikh nit
- Galitsye
- Glik
- Git mir op maz'l-tov
- A heymisher bulgar
- Hopkele
- Ikh bin a mame
- Ikh hob dikh
- Ikh vel vart'n oyf dir
- Ikh vil es her'n nokhamol
- Ikh zing
- In a kleyn shtibele
- Kh'bet dikh hob mikh lib
- Libe
- Mayn maz'ldiker tog
- Mayn yidishe meydele
- Maz'l
- Meydele
- A meydele vi du
- Mit dir iz mir gut
- Narishe tates
- Oy mame, bin ikh farlibt
- Oy s'iz gut
- Oyg'n
- Rozhinkes mit mandl'n
- Rumania, Rumania
- Sheyn vi di l'vone
- A sheyner kholem
- Shtarker fun libe
- Shver tzu zayn a yid
- Slutzk
- Tif vi di nakht
- Undzer yidish folk
- Ven ikh kuk oyf dir
- Vi ahin zol ikh geyn?
- Vos du vilst, dos vil ikh oykh
- Vos geven iz geven un nito
- Vos iz gevor'n fun mayn shtetele?
- Vu zaynen mayne zib'n gute yor?
- Yuk'l!
- Yid'l mit'n fid'l
- Zise kinder yor'n
- Zug es mir nukhamol
- Zug farvus?
- Notes:
- Includes songs by Ellstein, Rumshinsky, Shmulowitz, Abe Schwartz, Perlmutter, Secunda, Lebedeff, Olshanetsky, Jaffe, Goldfaden, Wohl, Korn-Tuer, and Meyerowitz.
- Transliterated Yiddish words; also printed as text in English.
- Foreword in English includes historical information.
- With chord symbols.
- Includes index of lyricists and composers.
- Local Notes:
- HSP and Balch Non-English
- Frederic R. Kirkland Collection.
- "Centennial edition. 600 copies. No. 587."
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: New York Times great songs of the Yiddish theater.
- ISBN:
- 0812905741
- 9780812905748
- OCLC:
- 3000181
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