Talk:Kiselgof

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Kiselgof, Zinovy Aronovich (1878-1939)

This article was inspired by information from Margot Leverett, clarinetist from the Klezmer Mountain Boys. Margot once performed with Russian musicians who gave her a gift of two books which contained beautiful songs collected during the early 20th century, which had been recently discovered in St. Petersburg. After seeing few internet references to this ethnomusicologist, I decided to start this page to collect information I have found about him and the music he collected.

If you search Google for: kiselgof, zinovy The following link contains relevant information:

I found one book at the Workmen's Circle bookstore in New York City which contained songs collected by Kiselgof:

Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg

Center for Jewish Music

Jewish Folk Melodies

collected by Zinovy Kiselgof

Republication of the collection prepared by the Jewish Folk Music Society in Petrograd in 1915

St. Petersburg 2001

The copyright page lists the following information:

Second, corrected edition Editors: Evgeny Khazdan and Leonid Guralnik Computer design: Leonid Guralnik

To obtain this and other publications of the Center for Jewish Music, please write to this address:

c/o Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg

Rubinshteina Street 3, office 50

St. Petersburg 191025

Russia

Telephone (+7-812) 113-3889, 311-6440 Fax: (+7-812) 314-5117

Copyright Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg, 2001.

The book includes 24 melodies with chord symbols, dynamics, and metronome settings.

Paraphrasing the introduction:

The melodies are part of a unique collection of Yiddish folk songs, synagogue melodies, Hasidic Nigunim, Purimshpils, and instrumental music gathered by Kiselgof during the 1913-14 ethnographic expeditions organized by Semyon An-sky (Rappoport) to small towns of the Volhynia District and Byelorussia, where he used a phonograph to record thousands of examples of Jewish musical folklore. Members of the Jewish Folk Music Society interpreted and described these collected works. The songs in this book were first published in 1915 in Petrograd.

Two products are published by the Klezmer Mountain Boys which contain information about songs which are derived from the ethnomusicological studies of Zinovy Kiselgof and Moshe Beregovski. They can be found on this page: 

1. The liner notes to the CD: Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys describe the sources for 3 of the songs.

2. Sheet music for several of these songs can be found in these books:

The Art of Klezmer Clarinet and Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys for Bb or C instruments

Since this music is very meaningful to Klezmer musicians and people of Jewish heritage, I encourage anybody with verifiable information to edit this post, so it may become a bibliographic reference for study.

Erangell 13:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)