So that's what you call these songs!
Contrafactum (contrafacta)
"The substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music"
Avery explained that in Italian this is also called canta si come.
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Researching Yiddish penny songs (tenement song broadsides of theater and variety show songs, 1895-1925)
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Saturday, April 16, 2016
Contrafactum (contrafacta)
"The substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music"
Avery explained that in Italian this is also called canta si come.
This Obscurity Factory belongs to Jane Peppler
Contact: 919-606-2122 or email jane@mappamundi.com
This blog follows my research on a collection of 200 song sheets found at Hebrew Union College as "Penny Songs by Morris Rund and others." See also:
Yiddish Ragtime
- Yiddish songs from the 1920s and 1930s (and sometimes beyond), focused on the songs published by Warsaw book and record seller Itzik Zhelonek: Yiddish Curiosities
Yiddish songs of the Gaslight Era: lead sheets with chords, transliterations, translations, and images from the original music. Click images to see the books!
Yiddish Songs of the Gaslight Era Volume 1
Yiddish Songs of the Gaslight Era Volume 2
The American Yiddish Penny Songs book: facsimiles of the original Yiddish broadsides as sold on the streets of New York by Jewish peddlers.
There are four digital-only cds of songs recorded for this blog:
Ikh bin busy
Opgenarte velt
Vos hot men tsu mir?
Der East Side fun amol
If you have more information on any of this music, or want to ask a question or just say hi, please email me (Jane Peppler) or call 919-606-2122
Index to my Yiddish theater song posts, mp3s, videos, sheet music, transliterations: Yiddish theater songs
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My songbook of rare Yiddish theater music popular in interwar Warsaw Poland: click for more information
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