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Tekhies hameysim-tants (LKT)
… get the full reference. “... One of the most beautiful dances on display during this event is no doubt the ‘tekhiat ha-metim’ dance, or in popular language ‘tekhies hameysim tants’ . A pair of dancers execute this dance the whole of which consists of a …
Tants (Alter yidisher) (LKT)
… 223 . (Musical notation included). “‘ Shemonah-esreh ’ Dance”.“Tzvi Fridhaber, scholar of Jewish dance, Haifa, writes to us:... I was approached by Ms. Chava Verbah and she told me of two wedding dances that she recalled from her childhood in the area of …
Tango (LKT)
… citation, you get the full reference. “You had Polish dance tunes like krakowiak , oberek , na wesolo , mazur and … [Warsaw, Poland, 1930s]. Alpert 1996a, pp. 16-17 . “We danced all kinds of dances:... tangos...” Slobin 1982, p. 28 . … Tango (LKT) …
The Story of Dance Music
… Philosophical Library … … 1947 … Paul Nettl … The Story of Dance Music …
Skotshne/Skochne
… played Jewish tunes in addition to the Ukrainian dance-repertoire. In the same way they brought their … “There are also cases in which the name of a Jewish dance is not Jewish but Ukrainian, yet it is hard to ascertain that the dance has been adopted from the Ukrainian surroundings. The …
Sirba
… (Romanian Sirba ) is another traditional Romanian music and dance genre, known throughout the east Carpathian region … mountainside, while the final, merry cadences of the brisk dance express the joy of reunion with his wayward ovine...” Alpert 1993, p. 2 . “Sirba: Romanian-Jewish dance tune typified by triplets in the melody over a 2/4 …
Shtoktants (LKT)
… old man is the expert in the ‘shtoktants,’ the ‘stick dance’... he turns to Avrem’l the klezmer , calling for ‘a … circle. The old man is an expert in the ‘ Shtocktants ’ (‘Dance of the Stick’). Immediately, a circle of young … wide enough for the old man to freely swing the stick as he dances. The old man commandingly turns to Abramele the …
Shrayer
… is interesting to establish whether non-Jews adopted Jewish dances. We know of cases in which Ukrainian peasants took up … [= Beregovski/Slobin 1982, p. 540] . “We used to dance all kinds of dances:... shrayer ...” Slobin 1982, p. 28 . See Sher . … …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… ( example 5 ). It is possible that Beregovsky heard this dance tune played by a klezmer instrumental ensemble. The …
Sheyne-minke (LKT)
… quibbled with the girls, [and] there a konter-tants was danced for [the women’s] approval, one which only the Modnitzers knew, this [dance] was already part of the high hand-dances, next [came]: a semele, a tsigayner-tants , a …