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Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… influenced by Slavic languages. Both the language and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, … (lyric and narrative songs ( nor gender specific ) dance songs). One of the earliest accounts of … baby, a secular activity, was sometimes accompanied by non-Jewish melodies, sometimes by religious melodies, and …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… playing in 2010 and are a self-proclaimed ‘100% Trans Jewish band.’ One definition to the term transgender can be … which practically invites the listener to get up and dance a hora (an Israeli folk dance, apparently not a rare occurrence at a Schmekel …
Brakha Tzefira
… Tzefira knew from her childhood including Sephardic songs, Jewish songs from Yemen, Persia, and Bukhara, as well as … songs, and Marc Lavry preferred songs with a light and danceable style. Other composers she worked with were … event. Tzefira's turn to art music, rather than the Israeli folksong, was acclaimed by some, while criticized by others. …
Elohim Eshala
… Michael Collection, R 0080. This is a copy of the 1958 Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite … exoticism” that captivated at the time the American Jewish audience. It is clear that the voices of Shoshana … format of this recording and its formal concept is in accordance with the cutting of a commercial 78rpm record. See …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… the four days of fast, and thrice on Yom Kippur. All of the Jewish communities in Israel, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi, … reads out loud the last blessing of the Amida in accordance to the modal character of that specific day. This is … the other hand, the Eastern European music's source is from folkloric inventions of the priests. In similarity with folk …
Hora
… from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a circular folk dance. Later, it came to signify also a specific dance. The … and the second with duple. Hora as a Klezmer Genre The Jewish Klezmers adopted both kinds of genres and terms. The …
Freylekhs
… in Eastern Europe, and were the most popular amongst the Dance tunes . Support for this hypothesis is found in … of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). [1] Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , Vol. III (М.Я.Береговский. Еврейская народная …
Zemirot
… origins, and comprising an ever expanding body of folk material.' The texts of the Zemirot describe the joys … and leaned heavily on Liturgical modes and formulae. 2. Non-Jewish folk tunes served as the music for the Zemirot texts; … German, Bohemian, Hungarian and Polish secular songs and dances. 3. Jewish melodies either newly composed or already …
Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… terms, such as tants nign or a tenzl. Other terms for dance tunes are: hopke; dreidl; redl or redele (all probably … of Hassidic music , p. 240; see also Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , 2001, no. 85, 102. [2] See Mazor-Hajdu, The …
Kolomeyke (LKT)
… p. 239 . “The co-territorial repertoire consisted of local dance tunes of non-Jewish origin played by klezmorim for non-Jews, and also, at … is typical of several musical categories of the gentile folk environment in which the Hasidic movement arose and …