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

… he knocked on the door and said, 'I wanted to play you some tunes I wrote.' He sat near the piano and started playing …

… bilshon tkhine , requesting God's protection from misfortunes such as sickness and untimely death, and more … the “‘Akedah -tune” as the seventh of eleven “Ashkenazic tunes for individual poetical texts,” claiming that some of … impossible and futile to pass judgement as to whether these tunes are capable of calling forth in our days the ideas and …

… and North African Sephardic traditions. These are two tunes of very narrow-range that hardly distinguish …

… could resist being moved to tears when he intoned those tunes which express pain. He could, on a simple Shabbos , …

… prayer book that he held in his hands and started to play tunes of the Evening Prayer, the  selihot  (penitential …

… finds its expression particularly in the niggunei devekut (tunes of mystical cleaving), “that is the tune of the soul, … his pioneering publication of a selection of the Rebbe’s tunes in musical notation, contributed to cementing the …

Judeo-Spanish version of a liturgical poem (piyyut) of the ‘akedah type included in the…

This is a short extract of the article “Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan…