The oriental music broadcasts, 1936-1937 : a musical ethnography of Mandatory Palestine /
Lachmann, Robert,1892-1939,author,compiler.
Davis, Ruth Frances,editor.
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.
Various performers.
Music recorded live, in studio performance, between December 2, 1936 and April 28, 1937 in Palestine.
"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.
Lachmann, Robert, 1892-1939
Music
Music
Jews
Arabs
Samaritans
Coptic chants.