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Dobridzien (LKT)

… entrance to the shtetl was a grand affair. The first melody ‘dobridz’in’ they played [as they walked] at the …

… each citation, you get the full reference. “We find the melody to this song [‘Zayt gezunterheyt mayne libe eltern’] … Beregovski/Goldin 1987 #44 . (Musical notation included). “Melody, that klezmorim play at the end of a wedding. The … it becomes like a ‘yonkiper’ [sad occasion]. At the end the melody becomes happy and people dance a karahod .” [Vilna, …

Dobranotsh (LKT)

… room and accompanied them with the good night – mazltov melody.” [Orgajev, Bessarabia, c. 1930s-1940s]. Bik 1964 . … ‘dobra notsh’ ( ‘a gute nakht’ ), from the beginning of the melody, the badkhn used to shout in a loud voice -- for the … honor of the famous important in-law... At the end of the melody, the badkhn used to mention again for whom it had …

Aksak (LKT)

… citation, you get the full reference. “[The Bessarabian melody] Fotta-Poppa was probably originally an aksak piece, …

A gute nakht (LKT)

… room and accompanied them with the good night – mazltov melody.” [Orgajev, Bessarabia, c. 1930s-1940s]. Bik 1964 . … ‘dobra notsh’ ( ‘a gute nakht’ ). At the beginning of the melody, the badkhn used to shout in a loud voice -- for the … of some famous important mekhuton ... At the end of the melody, the badkhn used to mention again for whom it had …

Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)

… Hassidim. Like many other songs in the Hillula genre, the melody, which is shared by the verses and the refrain, …

Chasidic in America

… consists of two distinctive sections. The first is a short melody in a style reminiscent of certain types of Hassidic niggunim . Both singers sing the same melody with Weiss harmonizing a third above Oysher. The melody rises from the tonic to the fourth and then works its …

Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture

… This melody was sung on the first two days of Pessa h for Birkat … preceding or during those same Holy Days. For example, the melody used for the shaking of the lulav during the Hallel … of [or for the Sabbath before or after it] Sung to the melody Example no. Rosh Hashannah Hayom harat olam - from …

Ve-Hi She-’Amda – Piyyut from the Passover Haggadah

… are three of the most widely known: Traditional Ashkenazi melody – to listen to a performance by Arieh Greb, click here . A slow melody attributed to Rabbi Aharon of Karlin, which is also … rock instrumental arrangement to the well- known Ashkenazi melody, as part of the “Metal Prayer” project. To listen, …

In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song

… musical arrangements to the song. The first is a monophonic melody in a minor mode and in a triple meter, either in ¾ or … with the text shortly after An-sky initially wrote it. This melody first appeared in the 1919 song book Freiheits … the messiah omitted and replaced with asterisks. The second melody is a choral arrangement by Joseph Achron , the …