Folk music of Palestine
Series: Ethnic Folkways Library
Publisher: Folkways Records
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: heb
Format: [sound recording]
Subjects: Hebrew Folk songs; Folk music
Other titles: Music of the Middle East-Palestine.
Notes: Title from container.

Re-recordings from material in the archives of the Dept. of Folk Music of the Anthropological Institute of Israel.

Introduction, by Raphael Patai, and notes on the music, by M. Kolinski (7 p.) inserted in container.

Sung and played by native musicians.
Table of contents: title: Gulait dore (Bokharian wedding song); title: Al matcha anora (Bokharian wedding song accompanied by doyras); title: Tulkum (Song of the Sandy Hills : Bokharian); title: Raftam rayi (Bokharian love song); title: Taki chasma [Bokharian love song]; title: Recitation from Firdausi's Shahname (Iranian); title: Ve eem lo akshav (Hebrew); title: Aharei mot (leviticus XVI, 1); title: Kedusha (Hebrew-Oriental); title: Kether : congregational prayer (Hebrew-Oriental); title: Song of Moses (Exod. XIV, 30, Hebrew Yemenite); title: Ceremonial song (Hebrew Yemenite); title: Noor al muffadah lah = Light of the redeemed (Prophet's birthday song); title: Song of the month of fasting (Ramadan); title: Recitation from the Koran; title: Love song.