Synagogen-Gesänge [?]

Date:

1881

Language:

German; English; Hebrew

Provenance:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Gratz College, 2023.; Gratz College (Philadelphia, Pa.) (donor); Nussbaum (Cantor, active 1871), former owner.; Mandell, Eric, 1902-1988, former owner.; Gratz College (Philadelphia, Pa.), donor.

Subject:

Sacred songs -- Scores; Synagogue music -- Scores; Jewish chants -- Scores; Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts -- Scores; Presented to the Penn Libraries by Gratz College, 2023; Chants sacrés -- Partitions; Musique synagogale -- Partitions; Chant juif -- Partitions; Judaïsme -- Liturgie -- Textes -- Partitions

Resource Type:

Still Image; Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); scores (documents for music); Cantorial music; Synagogue music; chants; Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 ms. score (28 pages of notated music, 16 blank pages)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Pasted on cover: Hexagon-shaped sheet of paper with a concentric hexagonal motif rendered in blue lines that diminish in thickness toward the outer edges. At the center appears the handwritten title Synagogen Gesänge, along with a provenance note identifying Rabbi Nussbaum as owner in 1881. The manuscript is possibly written by more than one hand, as suggested by variations in script.; Written in blue and black inks, with the number of staves varying throughout.; Texts are in romanized Hebrew; titles appear primarily in Hebrew script, with a few in Latin script; additional text is in German written in Latin script.; "26.6.92." (Image 28).; Pasted on page [1]: notecard with text in German and English "Synagogen-Gesänge von Cantor R. Nussbaum Lehrer in Wittlich (1871?), later cantor in Duisburg."; Table of contents: Ashre / Naumburg -- Uve-nuḥoh yomar -- [Image 11] -- Halel / Naumburg -- Ṿa-yehi bi-nesoʻa / Naumbourg -- Ṿa-yehi bi-nesoʻa / München -- Hodu ʻal arets / Naumbourg -- 51 Choral zur Trauung -- ʻArvit le-Shabat -- Darkekha(?) le-Khol nidre -- Min ha-metsar / v. Heleʹvy -- -- L'cho dodi [Lekha dodi] / Baer -- Einheben auf Goldberg -- Einleitüng -- Wayedabber [Ṿa-yedaber]; Related Work: Naumbourg, Samuel, 1817-1880. Vocal works. Selections.; Related Work: Halévy, F., 1799-1862. Min ha-metsar.; Related Work: Birnbaum, Abraham B. (Abraham Baer), 1865-1922. L'cho dodi.; Related Work: Goldberg, Hirsch, 1807-1893. Einheben.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, GM-183

Collection:

Gratz-Mandell Jewish Music Collection (University of Pennsylvania)