Genealogies of Two Wandering Hebrew Melodies
It is well known that tunes of songs, no less than their texts, often provide an historical mirror of an exceedingly sharp focus. A special category of such songs are the so- called “migrating” or “wandering” tunes. What wanders is, of course, usually the tune, or a motif of it, not the text itself. Ever since J. G. Herder alluded to such…
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