Meron Nigh

[Mark Levesque]

Does anyone have the sheet music to Meron Nigh, recorded on mandolin by Jeff Warschauer on a Klezmer Conservatory Band recording and also by Will Soll on the Kol Sasson CD?

Thanks,
Mark

[Michael Wolf]

It´s one of my favorite tunes, too. Unfortunately I don´t have the sheet music, I transcribed it by ear a few years ago and didn´t find it to difficult. But thanks for the hint to Will Soll. I didn´t know him and there seems to be nothing about him on the internet.

[McMandolin]

There is a tab version in the klezmer section of this sites tab collection

[Elliot Luber]

I'm hard pressed for a question on this board where the answer wasn't already somewhere here on the Cafe. That's not a comment about valid questions, but a comment about the depth of information to be found. You had to know we'd have the tabs here somewhere.

[McMandolin]

I think it is Meron Nign or Nigun Which means tune or melody
The plural is nigunim

[Mark Levesque]

You are right about the spelling JC, I'd better start wearing my new glasses.

I've already learned the tune with a combination of ear and the Cafe tab.
I was hoping for the sheet music so I could use it for a gig with a flutist this week. I'm thinking it would make a great slower segue piece to "Caravan" or "Misirlou". But, I'm now thinking, so would the "Yidish (or "Bessarabian) Honga"

[McMandolin]

A comination I play is "Galitzianer Tanz" and "Ril de Pointe au Pic''
Sort of a Montreal smoked meat sandwich

[Gary S]

I believe Meron nign is also known as Araber Tantz. Naftule Brandwine recorded a classic rendering of this tune in the 1930s.

Mt Meron is a very holy place in Israel near Safed. Safed, pronounced Tsfat, Is a beautiful city overlooking the Sea of Galillie in hebrew(Kenneret). I can easily imagine the eccstatic singing of this beautiful nign by Holy people in this spiritual setting.

Gary