Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Critical Editions

FAIN: RQ-287038-22

Klezmer Institute, Inc. (New York, NY 10025-2014)
Walter Zev Feldman (Project Director: December 2021 to present)

Preparation of a critical edition and performance scores of The Kiselgof-Makonovetsky collection of Klezmer music written in 1912-1914 in Yiddish, Ukrainian, and other East European languages. (24 months)   

The Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Critical Editions will make available music manuscripts that will broaden the range of accessible early twentieth-century European Jewish music resources, recenter the repertoires of key klezmer musician informants, and will contextualize the work of Europe's revered twentieth-century Jewish ethnomusicological researchers. The Series will develop a new proposed standard for transliteration of Yiddish dialect to be presented alongside YIVO Yiddish, addressing a long-standing need for systematic, searchable text that preserves the idiom of Ashkenazic dialects.

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