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44. ¿Por qué no cantáis la bella? (Çakum Effendi)
This song consists of two lines of ¿Por qué no cantáis la bella? (CMP J4), a rare…
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… the Shaharit prayer, in which the participants communally sing various piyyutim, which are titled Baqqashot. The … The cabbalists of Safed ascribed prime importance to the singing of piyyutim. Their repertoire included poems written … been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went into decline, and that of …

Romancing the Romance: Perceptions (and Boundaries) of the Judeo-Spanish Ballad
… … 91 … 91 … 2 … Ballads and Boundaries: Narrative Singing in an Intercultural Context … Ballads and Boundaries: Narrative Singing in an Intercultural Context … 38423 … 209-217 … Los …

Shtoktants (LKT)
… sides and above his head. This takes quite a long time, causing his whole body to shake. Gradually, he raises himself …

Kol Nidrei
Lit. ‘all vows.’ The evening services which opens the Day of Atonement, declaring an…

Hirsch Glik
… Vilna in 1943 and second, news of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The song was based on a popular Soviet melody by … continued writing poems. In 1944, as Russian forces were closing in, he escaped from the camp to join the partisans, but …

Patsh Tants (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Por qué no cantáis la bella (La Reina estava lavrando, La reyna estava lavrando)
This truncated version of the romance ¿Por qué no cantáis la bella? (CMP J4) is rare…

Fritz Rikko
Fritz Rikko was a musicologist and conductor who was an authority on music of the…