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Nahum Heiman
… in Hodes's folk dancing classes, but instead of playing the tunes regularly, he would improvise. Hodes didn't like it, …
4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)
This is a song or copla belonging to the cycle of Moses, catalogued by Elena Romero…
20. Mūlamuṭĕyon Ekan (Baby Moses Taken from the Water)
The opening lines of a song with a lullaby-like tune, telling the Biblical story of how…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… bear the earmarks that we identify with Klezmer music. The tunes are almost universally in minor; often they are in the … have the earmarks of simple Jewish Klezmer-style folk tunes, the settings have all the complexity and …
Betlers-tants (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… the same melody-type (mostly of the first part only). The tunes of the Moldavian/Rumanian songs that we already … its structural affinity with an endless number of European tunes, the lack of individuality of the melody: “What do … . As is well known, this Bohemian composer utilized popular tunes of Bohemia as themes to his larger compositions. The …
Taksim (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Elohim Eshala
… Elohim Eshala in a broadcast dedicated to Jewish-Yemenite tunes (see the program of the first week of Hebrew … minds of romantic Orientalist European Jews) as far as the tunes of the ancient Levites of the Temple in Jerusalem. …