Hebrew-oriental melody treasure
Hebrew-Oriental Melodi Treasure is an edition of the musical inventory of the Jewish liturgy and folklore , "collected, explained and edited for the first time" (subtitle) by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882–1938). The collection consists of ten volumes and was mainly published in Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel from 1914 to 1932, partly in the Harz publishing house, Berlin [etc.], or by Hofmeister, Leipzig.
The Jewish music researcher Abraham Zvi Idelsohn "documented [...] in Jerusalem between 1911 and 1913 phonographically recitations of the Bible by the Yemeni, Babylonian, Syrian, Persian, Oriental-Sephardic and Moroccan Jews."
Contents overview
- I (1914), Songs of the Yemeni Jews
- II (1922), Songs of the Babylonian Jews
- III (1922), Songs of the Persian, Bucharian and Daghestan Jews
- IV (1923), Chants of the Oriental Sephardim
- V (1929), Songs of the Moroccan Jews
- VI (1932), The Synagogue Song of German Jews in the 18th Century
- VII (1932), The Traditional Chants of the South German Jews
- VIII (1932), The Synagogue Song of the Eastern European Jews
- IX (1932), The People's Song of the Eastern European Jews
- X (1932), Chants of the Hasidim
literature
- Riemann Musiklexikon, 12.A., Sachteil, p. 202
- Philip V. Bohlman : Jewish Folk Music. A Central European Intellectual History. Böhlau 2005 ( online excerpt )