Talk:Pizmonim

Pizmon: Misleading entry
I have deleted the section (and external link) for the Pizmon a-cappella group from Columbia, Barnard, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Aside from the word "pizmon", it has absolutely nothing to do with the Jewish-Arab musical genre of Pizmonim. If you peruse their website (http://www.pizmon.org/index.html), you will see that they do not sing any pizmonim. What they DO sing includes "Israeli rock and pop, English parodies, Yiddish classics, and children's songs." As is obvious, they should not be featured in the Wikipedia entry for Pizmonim. It seems that whoever included the section for this a-cappella ensemble did so only for promotional purposes.

-  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.216.206.177 (talk) 22:32, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Do you think this article might now qualify for de-stubbing? --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 16:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC) (Now done.)

Pizmon
Can we move the page to Pizmon?  Tewfik Talk 05:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Grammatically it would make better sense, but in the interests of accessibility I'd rather not. When I think of the developed Syrian tradition, I automatically think of "pizmonim", and anyone trying to find out about them would tend to search under that title.  "Pizmon" only makes me think of the heading for that very long piyyut about the Esther story that we sing on Shabbat Zachor (or maybe "El Nora Alilah" on Ereb Kippur). --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 14:35, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Links
why did you remove the "Sephardic Press" link? I know that it is a commercial site, but I added it because it is equally possible to order pizmonim CDs from this site and from the Shrem project site. Naturally, as the person organizing the Shrem project, you do not want to promote a competitor, but that is not a legitimate reason for Wikipedia purposes: in the interests of neutrality we should have both or neither. If there is an objective reason for omitting the Sephardic Press reference, I would be interested to know. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 09:27, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Translation
Please help translate David Betesh 14:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I have done what I can, but the order of words in the Nahawand entry appears to be garbled. Can you let me have it again?

Where does this table come from? It is not very complete, as it excludes Rast, which in Arabic music is often considered the most important of all. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) 14:23, 6 June 2006 (UTC)