[Avodah] changing tune in lecha dodi

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:31:08PM +0000, Gershon Dubin wrote:
:> As for the origin, bemechilas kevod toras R' Dovid Cohen, I think it
:> has a basis.

: So, the basis is
:> There is a minhag Frankfurt-am-Main to sing one tune for the beginning to
: His'oreri...
...
:> And then for the return to discussing Shabbos in Bo'i veShalom they
:> would *switch back*.

: I needn't say it, because you did:
:> Not exactly the same minhag, but the beginning of the idea.

: Then, instead of a mekor...

To supplement the maqor. The question was where the minhag of changing
the tune came from. I showed that it's an old Yekkishe minhag to change
the tune, albeit in a different place. This shifts the question. Given
that changing the tune is in fact a minhag that is older than I am,
why did we change which verse we change it at?

For that I do not have a source, but suggested a possible reason for
the shift. But in discussing that source, I wrote:
> To my mind this must be connected to the Chassidishe minhag, which is
> to use a slow tune for the first verses, and a lively / happy one for
> the last 4.....

The chassidishe version of the minhag (switching once, at Lo Seivoshi ),
which is what RSG asked for a maqor for, is old enough for many people
to have already forgotten details of that minhag. How many people insure
that Lo Seivoshi is a switch to a happier melody?

Or course, if the chazan thought about what he was saying, the choice
of melodies would be self-evident. Of course you sing Miqdash Melekh
to a plaintive tune, and Yamin uSemol to a joyous one.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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