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Tants nign (LKT)
… social dances that have no accompanying song emerged in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish …
Hora (LKT)
… of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee. A circle dance, in a moderately fast quadruple meter, the hora invites public … klezmer music bear no resemblance to the tourist-y horas of modern Israel...The horas in this book derive from a … The more general meaning is a binary rhythmic form at a moderate tempo. In western Moldavia the term can also refer …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… of history, a sense of national and cultural pride, and the modern holiday. A hint towards Zionism can also be found in …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… (dance), and so on. The freylaxs ’ tempo varied, from moderate to very quick. It was usually moderately quick for round dances. Naturally, the character … the šer from the frejlaxs , if the latter is in a moderate tempo. The tempo of the šer is more or less …
Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… bazetsn here, the modulation to the Ahavo Rabo or fregish mode, characterized by the harmonic relationship D-Cm, is … freylekhs (a lively dance tune in 2/4) in the same mode. Most kale bazetsn are follwed by freylekhs.” …
Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary
… … Yiddish language … English language … Uriel Weinreich … Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary …
Honga (LKT)
… dances hora and hangu (Yiddish: honga, ange ), [are] moderate tempo eastern Romanian dance tunes in 4/4 time …
Ange (LKT)
… dances hora and hangu (Yiddish: honga, ange ), [are] moderate tempo eastern Romanian dance tunes in 4/4 time …
Chasidic in America
… complex and ambiguous meeting point between traditional and modern culture which was strongly felt by Jews in the United … family’s shtetl . The intersection between tradition and modernity in the song ‘Chasidic in America’ was further …
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
… Toledo, 1998 , Vol. II, Judaism from the Renaissance to Modern Times, Eds. J. Tarragona Borrás & A. Sáenz Badillos. …