The oriental music broadcasts, 1936-1937
Subtitle: a musical ethnography of Mandatory Palestine
By: Robert Lachmann ; edited by Ruth F. Davis
Contributors: Davis, Ruth F., 1952- editor; Ibn ʻAdwān, Nimr, 1754-1823, author; Judah, ha-Levi, active 12th century, author; Shabazi, Shalem, 1619-1686, author; Tanbûrı̂ Cemil Bey, 1871-1916, composer, instrumentalist
Series: Recent researches in the oral traditions of music -- 10; Recent researches in the oral traditions of music -- 10.
Publisher: A-R Editions
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Middleton, Wisconsin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780895797766
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Music; History and criticism; Jews; Arabs; Samaritans; Coptic chants; Ethnomusicological collections; Ethnomusicology; Private collections
Other titles: Musical ethnography of Mandatory Palestine
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 preface, introduction and editor's commentary in English.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-124).

Various performers.

Music recorded live, in studio performance, between December 2, 1936 and April 28, 1937 in Palestine.

Lecture transcriptions in English; songs in Arabic, Coptic, or Hebrew, also printed as text with English translation.

Staff notation.
Table of contents: title: "On first hearing a genuine piece of Oriental music" (18 November 1936); title: Liturgical songs of the Yemenite Jews (2 December 1936); title: Coptic liturgical chant and hymns (16 December 1936); title: Liturgical songs of the Kurdish Jews (6 January 1937); title: Bedouin sung poetry accompanied by rabāba (20 January 1937); title: Liturgical cantillation and songs of the Samaritans (3 February 1937); title: Men's songs for a Yemenite Jewish wedding (17 February 1937); title: Women's songs for a Yemenite Jewish wedding (3 march 1937); title: Arab urban music : Maqām (16 March 1937); title: Music from the western Arab world (31 March 1937); title: Music from the eastern Arab world (14 April 1937); title: Men's songs for an Arab village wedding in central Palestine (28 April 1937).; title: CD contents, disc one. Shirat ha-yam = Songs of the sea : excerpt, Exod. 15:1-4 (Sa'adiya Nahum) (1:46 ; 1:48); title: Proverbs 1:1-7 (Sa'adiya Nahum) (1:03 ; 1:07); title: Laḥn (hymn) : from the Liturgy of St. Cyril (3:00 ; 3:22); title: Peklaos gar : from the Liturgy of St. Gregory (1:39 ; 1:57); title: Aseret ha-dibberot = Ten Commandments : excerpt, Exod. 20:2-7) (Eliahu Yahye Mizrahi) (1:39 ; 1:47); title: Aw lamīn / Qaṣīdit Nimr Ibn 'Adwān (Bājis Afandī Imʹaddī, voice and rabāba) (3:10 ; 3:40); title: Shirat ha-yam = Song of the sea : excerpt, Exod. 15:1 (Ibrahim Kohen) (2:42 ; 2:55); title: Sukkāni dhāk al-wādī (Ibrahim Kohen) (2:48 ; 2:49); title: 'At ben 'aṣe 'eden / Judah Halevi (Sa'adiya Nahum, solo voice ; Yahya Nahari, Hayyim Mahbub, chorus) (2:08 ; 2:09); title: 'Ayelet ḥen / Shalem Shabazi (Sa'adiya Nahum, solo voice ; Yahya Nahari, Hayyim Mahbub, chorus) (1:33 ; 1:34); title: Sā'at r-raḥmān dalḥīn (1:37 ; 1:37); title: Allāh yā Allāh, yā 'ālen bi-ḥālī (1:14 ; 1:14); title: Yā Allāh hal-yōm (2:05 ; 2:08); title: Yā-llāh 'na salak (1:33 ; 1:39).; title: CD contents, disc two. Taqsīm ḥijāz (Ezra Aharon, ʻūd) (3:15 ; 3:18); title: Taqsīm ṣabā (Ezra Aharon, ʻūd) (2:01 ; 2:51); title: Moroccan song : Ṣaḥbi l-awwal (Al-Touhami bin Omar) (3:05 ; 3:07); title: Egyptian song : Qad ḥarrakat aydī n-nasīmi (Shaykh Sayyid al-Ṣafṭī) (3:30 ; 3:33); title: Shet araban saz semaisi / Tanburî Cemil Bey (Tanburî Cemil Bey, tanbur) (3:23 ; 3:28); title: Zaffa hamasiyya (Mḥammed 'Abd ar-Raḥūn Abu Msellem and group) (3:10 ; 3:10); title: 'Ala dal'ūnā dabke ('Abd al-Fattaḥ as-Sahāda, voice ; Aḥmed Smīr, shabbāba) (2:45 ; 2:44); title: 'A-l-hāma, 'a-l-hāma ('Abd al-Fattaḥ as-Sahāda, voice ; Aḥmed Smīr, shabbāba, zaghrūda (ululation)) (1:23 ; 1:23).