Genealogies of Two Wandering Hebrew Melodies
A. B. Yehoshua
1980
It is well known that tunes of songs, no less than their texts, often provide an historical mirror of an exceedingly sharp focus. A special category of such songs are the so- called “migrating” or “wandering” tunes. What wanders is, of course, usually the tune, or a motif of it, not the text itself. Ever since J. G. Herder alluded to such…
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