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Palestina : an overture for the Capitol Theatre, New York
Title
Palestina : an overture for the Capitol Theatre, New York / Leo Zeitlin ; edited by Paula Eisenstein Baker and Robert S. Nelson.
ISBN
9781987200836
9780895798008
Publication
Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2014.
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 score (xix, 59 pages, 6 pages of plates)) : facsimiles, portraits.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally titled Rhapsody on Hebrew Themes.
Overture played at the Capitol Theatre "picture palace" in September 1929, in celebration of Rosh Hashanah.
Edited from the holograph score.
Includes introduction and critical report.
Staff notation.
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Summary
"Trained in Russia, Zeitlin (1884-1930) was an accomplished composer, conductor, performer, and pedagogue. In writing Palestina, Zeitlin, as he had done during his entire career, was fulfilling the goals of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, which he joined in 1908 while still a student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory: to compose and perform works of art music on motivic material drawn from Jewish cantillation, liturgy, and folk song. In addition to employing two modes central to Jewish music and several Jewish tunes, in Palestina Zeitlin actually imitates the shofar calls heard in the synagogue before and during Rosh Hashanah and at the conclusion of Yom Kippur. This edition includes an extensive essay on the composer and on the themes and structure of Palestina, with insights into the Capitol Theatre and the role of music in picture palaces of this era." -- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Recent researches in music online. Legacy.
Other formats
Print version: Zeitlin, Leo, 1884-1930. Palestina. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., [2014].
Format
Music Scores / Online
Added to Catalog
March 29, 2023
Series
Recent researches in American music ; 76
Recent researches in Music Online,
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction. Zeitlin at New York's capitol theatre ; Palestina ; The critical response to Palestina ; Who wrote the Capitol's overtures? ; The rest of the story ; Palestina as Jewish Art Music ; The thematic and motivic sources for Palestina ; The structure of Palestina ; Notes
Plates
Palestina
Critical Report.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
Overtures.
Folk music.
Scores.
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