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Title

Partitur

Authors

• Abrass, Osias Joshua, 1820-1884

Other related names

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 032.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977580438803681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1120713295
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k649z5j

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew, transliterated into German pronunciations; Hebrew titles in Hebrew characters; musical terms in Italian and French

Origin

Date

between 1860 and 1899

Summary

Collection of over 20 choral pieces for a synagogue choir. The pieces at the beginning of the manuscript (p. 1-46) are marked in parts for soloists and chorus; in the rest of the manuscript parts are also marked for the cantor. The Hebrew lyrics are transliterated for pronunciation by German readers, who might have been in Germany or in the United States. A small number of pieces have attributions, to Naumburg (Louis Naumburg, 1813-1902, p. 1, 115), Abrass (Osias Joshua Abrass, 1820-1884, p. 11), Madame Handvogel (Virginie Handvogel?, p. 73), Blumenthal (Nissan Blumenthal?, 1805-1903, p. 78), and Chalaff (p. 108), Many of the pieces are for weekly services; a smaller number are for holidays. Some leaves show evidence of trimming (for example, p. 133)

Notes

• Title from upper cover.
   

Extent

1 volume (110 leaves)

Foliation

i + 110 + i leaves; [i-ii], 1-177, [178-220 (182-219 blank), i-ii]; early but not original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Binding

Quarter-leather cloth binding; title Partitur blind-stamped on upper cover with inscription in ink, No. 4.

Layout

Oblong format; seven staves ruled by hand with varying numbers of staves connected by brackets (most commonly grouped as four and three, with two voice parts sharing one staff in the group of three).

Script

Performance notations and transliterated lyrics and titles written in cursive script by multiple hands; titles in Hebrew characters written in square script; a few performance notations added by a later hand in pencil.

Provenance

• Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (purchased through Ebay, 1 November 2000) (Collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.01117).
   

Subjects topical

• Judaism--Liturgy--Texts
• Judaism--Liturgy
• Synagogue music
• Synagogue music

Genres

• Texts
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Scores (documents for music)
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century
• Manuscripts, German--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — Piece by Louis Naumburg
• 11 — Piece by Osias Joshua Abrass
• 73 — Piece by Madame Handvogel (Virginie Handvogel?)
• 78 — Piece by Blumenthal (Nissan Blumenthal?)
• 108 — Piece by Chalaff