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Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … 1724 from the transalpine tradition and had embraced the music aesthetics of the surrounding culture. The balanced … this style. The melody itself is not based on a universal musical language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly …
Hazzan (pl. Hazzanim)
… moments to insert piyyutim and often composed the musical settings themselves. During the Middle Ages, the …
Adon Olam
… someone on their deathbed. There is a wide range of musical settings for this hymn, including melodies from …
Akdamut millin
… is only recited in the Ashkenazi rite, and has two main musical settings; one is in a psalmodic style and the other …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… whether with or without text, are considered the core of musical creativity in all hassidic communities. They are … canopy. [7] [1] Vinaver-Schleifer, Anthology of Hassidic music , p. 191. In reference to this term among Ashkenazic hazzanim, see: Avenary, The musical vocabulatory of the Ashkenazic Hazanim , p. 190. [2] …
Tin Pan Alley
… Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in New York from the 1890s … Union Square, the location of the ‘alley’ shifted with music publishers to around West 28th Street in the 1890s, … such songwriters as Gerry Goffin and Carole King at Aldon Music, Leiber and Stoller, and Jeff Barry and Ellie …
Badhan
… Hebrew lit. entertainer. A merrymaker, rhymester, and musician who entertains primarily at weddings. Professional …
Klezmer (pl. Klezmorim)
… Eastern-European Jewish folk musician, generally instrumentalist. Also used as modifier to describe the genre of music produced by Klezmorim (e.g. Klezmer music). … Klezmer (pl. Klezmorim) …
Zemirot
… which are sung during and directly after Sabbath meals. The musical versions are numerous and heterogeneous reflecting a … God and his Sabbath and of God's remembrance of his people. Musically, the repertory of Zemirot Sabbath is diverse and eclectic. Within the Ashkenazic musical traditions one can point to a few types of melodies: …
Fal
… that from the first generations of the Hasidic movement, musically skilled Hasidim were aware to the fact that a … [ subjects ]. ' This awareness of Hasidic Menagnim (the musicians, see: Menagen) to the niggun 's division into … book. [6] Vinaver-Schleifer, Anthology of Hassidic Music , p. 150, and no. 47 [pp. 156-163]. … Recorded by …