#musicmanuscripts — Public Fediverse posts

glad this is coming together; a year ago when I was in NYC Pete Rushefsky met me and was telling me a trove of handwritten scores from cimbalom player Joseph Moskowitz had been uncovered in DC. I'll probably speak at this zoom about the old NY klezmer characters who appear in these scores.
https://ctmd.org/events/joseph-moskowitz-online-archive-launch/

#klezmer #JewishMusic #MusicHistory #RomanianMusic #MusicManuscripts #archives

A musical notation question ... I've been digitizing some handwritten scores for a klezmer workshop, all pieces by this old NY violinist Israel J. Hochman, and he often has the habit of writing a slur or line across the first two notes of triplets. Does it mean anything in particular about how it should be played?

#MusicQuestions #MusicalNotation #Violin #triplets #klezmer #MusicManuscripts

[...] "Unfortunately, these were fully orchestrated, but the other parts (there's only the first violin at YIVO) have not yet been located."

Some of Joel Rubin's commentary on the context of this can be read in his "Szpilman, Bajgelman, Barsht: The Legacy of an Extended Polish Jewish Klezmer Family." Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 32 (2020): 193-218.

#klezmer #FolkMusic #PolishMusic #MusicManuscripts #MusicHistory #JewishMusic

I haven't tried playing them yet, but I thought I should make a post about the "original compositions" in the Al Glaser collection at YIVO. Whether or not they're really his, it's a numbered set that appears in several different versions in his collection, and obviously held some importance to him!🤔
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/02/26/are-these-original-bucovina-klezmer-dances-by-al-glaser/

#klezmer #Bucovina #RomanianMusic #FolkMusic #MusicManuscripts #MusicHistory

This is the niche post of niche posts; I typed up a table of #klezmer copyright manuscript scores by #Philadelphia #clarinetist and bandleader Harry Kandel, trying to make sense of which #78rpm recordings of his have been digitized and where they fit in with the #MusicManuscripts Kandel submitted to the US government to copyright the tunes he was going to record. I gave up trying to account for all of the places his recordings are digitized!😲🎶
#JewishMusic #Yiddish
https://alte.klezmor.im/2024/08/17/a-mixed-list-of-scores-and-recordings-by-philadelphia-klezmer-harry-kandel/