Label and Number: Folkways Records FE 4175 and re-released on Smithsonian
Folkways Records 04175
Format: LP and CD
Year Released: 1963
City, State, Country Released: NY, NY, United States
78-era Sephardic Songs:
Pentateuch
Note: In 1963, Folkways Records released the "Demonstration
Collection of E.M. von Hornbostel
and the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv",
a sampler of cylinders from the pioneer
Berlin ethnomusicological collection. It included a cylinder,
number 103, recorded by A.Z. Idelsohn in Jerusalem in March 1913. The track is
described as "Pentateuch (?) Performed by a Catholic Jew from Spain." The
recording is indeed Torah cantillation, specifically Exodus, Chapter 20, verses
1-3 and part of 4. The performer follows Sephardi practice; I have been told it is Yerushalmi or Morrocan.
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