Listening to Klezmer Music with Schema Theory Yonatan Malin Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, November 2019

Please note: the digital copy of this handout includes links to audio and video (highlighted).

Example 1. Gas-nign no. 64 (Beregovski 2001), first section. Recording by Joel Rubin and Joshua Horowitz (1994)

Example 2. Additional instances of the 7-5-3 schema (Beregovski 2001) 2a. Dobranotsh no. 4, second section

2b. Gas-nign no. 61, second section

2c. Dobriden no. 2, second section

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2d. Freylekh no. 86, second section

Example 3. Variant of Freylekh no. 86 with harmony Recordings by the Soviet State Ensemble of Jewish Folk Music (1937; on Yiddish Songs: Traditionals (1911-1950) vol. 2) and The Klezmatics (1994).

Example 4. Altered Dorian scale

Example 5. The altered-Dorian ^8-6-4 cousin (Beregovski 2001) 5a. Skotshne no. 54

5b. Skotshne no. 116

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5c. Skotshne no. 56

5d. Freylekhs no. 119

Example 6. Dobriden no. 1, excerpt (Manuscript from Beregovski 2013) Recording from First Folklore Expeditions of M. Beregovski (Vernadsky National Library 2013).

Example 7. The second schema (Beregovski 2001) 7a. Dobriden no. 1.

7b. Bolgarish no. 214

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Example 8. The second schema extending above ^b5 (Beregovski 2001) 8a. Dobranotsh no. 7

8b. Dobranotsh no. 11

8c. Khtos no. 19

8d. Sher no. 189

8e. Mazltov (Dobranotsh) no. 8

8f. Kale bazetsn no. 14

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Example 9. Alicia Svigals, “Dybbuk Shers” Recording by Itzhak Perlman and Alicia Svigals with The Klezmatics (In the Fiddler’s House, 1995)

Example 10. Alicia Svigals, Yellow Ticket Film Score Video with music from Svigals and Lerner 2015.

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References Alford-Fowler. 2014. “Uncovering the Functionality of Klezmer Music.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Milwaukee, WI, November 2014. Beregovski, Moshe. 2001. Jewish Instrumental Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski. Edited by Mark Slobin, Robert A. Rothstein, and Michael Alpert. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press. ———. 2013. Jewish Musical Folklore. 5 volumes, 5 CD Set. Kiev: Dukh i Litera. Byros, Vasili. 2012a. “Meyer’s Anvil: Revisiting the Schema Concept.” Music Analysis 31 (3): 273–346. ———. 2012b. “Unearthing the Past: Theory and Archaeology in Robert Gjerdingen’s Music in the Galant Style.” Music Analysis 31 (1): 112–24. Feldman, Walter Zev. 2016. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory. New York: Oxford University Press. Gjerdingen, Robert. 2007. Music in the Galant Style. New York: Oxford University Press. Gjerdingen, Robert, and Janet Bourne. 2015. “Schema Theory as a Construction Grammar.” Music Theory Online 21 (2). Horowitz, Joshua. 1993. “The Klezmer Freygish Shteyger: Mode, Sub-Mode and Modal Progression.” Unpublished manuscript. Ito, John Paul. 2013. “Hypermetrical Schemas, Metrical Orientation, and Cognitive-Linguistic Paradigms.” Journal of Music Theory 57 (1): 47–85. Netsky, Hankus. 2015. Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Rubin, Joel. 2001. “The Art of the Klezmer: Improvisation and Ornamentation in the Commercial Recordings of New York Clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras, 1922–1929.” PhD diss., City University, London. Segelstein, Cookie and Joshua Horowitz. 2004. Kale Bazetsns and Doinas. Available at http://www.veretskipass.com/veretskipass.com/Store.html. Slobin, Mark. 1986. “A Fresh Look at Beregovski’s Folk Music Research.” Ethnomusicology 30 (2): 253–60. ———. 2000. Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World. New York: Oxford University Press. Wollock, Jeffrey. 2000. “The Soviet Klezmer Orchestra.” East European Jewish Affairs 30 (2): 1–36.

Discography Brandwein. (1926) 1997. King of the Klezmer Clarinet. Rounder 1127, compact disc. Perlman, Itzhak. 1995. Live in the Fiddler’s House. Angel Records 7243 5 55555 2 6, compact disc. Rubin, Joel and Joshua Horowitz. 1994. Bessarabian Symphony: Early Jewish Instrumental Music. Wergo SM 1606-2, compact disc. Svigals, Alicia and Marilyn Lerner. 2015. The Yellow Ticket. Traditional Crossroads, DVD. The Klezmatics. 1994. Jews With Horns. Xenophile Records XENO 4032, compact disc. Various Artists. 2004. Yiddish Songs: Traditionals (1911–1950), vol. 2. Membran, compact disc. The tracks are available on streaming services under Yiddish Klezmer Music, vol. 2. Vernadsky National Library. 2013. The First Folklore Expeditions of Moisei Beregovskii: 1929- 1930 (Kiev, Odessa, Belaia Tserkov, Slavuta). Vol. 6. Historical Collection of Jewish Musical Folklore, compact disc.

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