A very truncated version of the romance La bella en misa (CMP S7) as documented in…

This number opens the final section of the entire album consisting of four dance-…

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…

… by the head of the household according to traditional patterns. Yet, when the lighting of the candles occurred in …

… occasionally - in more rudimentary formations - tritonic patterns, which are nearly always of a certain …

The poem depicts "all Creatures" singing and praising the Unity of God. In the Sephardi…

Stutschewsky described the Yiddish lullaby as a genre as follows: Here lies the…

One of the widespread Judeo-Spanish songs of the early twentieth century that…

… the tonal center, and changing the meter and rhythmic patterns of the melody. The example below contains the first … other musical elements – such as range, melody, or rhythmic patterns – have changed over the years, therefore revealing … the society. The musical framework represents two different patterns of behavior of the individual and of the community, …

… the rest – three or four tones only. Asymmetric rhythmic patterns. In opposition to the limited movement of the … a “Freilichs”, i.e. freylekhs ). The order of the rhythmic patterns is asymmetric and yet well thought out. Three main patterns (a, b, c) reoccur in different permutations while …