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Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew and Yiddish. Many of these texts touch directly upon the … form for an ‘Akedah piyyut was the monorhymed quatrain. In Yiddish Literature Literature composed in Yiddish also … Kultur in den SchUM-Städten: Literatur - Musik - Theater . Edited by Karl E. Grözinger, 247–260. Wiesbaden: …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… European landscape: Hasidic tish-nigunim. Nigunim (Yiddish nign , from the Hebrew niggun —melody) are chants, … Israeli one, in which Arabic and Turkish tunes, new Yiddish theater melodies, Hebrew quasi-Hasidic songs, and old … Mazor, Yaakov, and Edwin Seroussi. 1990. “Towards a Hasidic Lexicon of Music.” Orbis Musicae 10:118–43. Minkovski, …
Tsu der khupe (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a … found... [this tune] on a copy of a 78 recording of a Yiddish theater wedding scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble …
Mazurka (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a … military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces from the Yiddish theatre, often in fox-trot, waltz, tango, and even …
Doyne (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a … hyperlink at the end of each citation. “The doina (Yiddish: doyne or doyna ), a free-meter Romanian folk … 1918:129, 1925: 135; Jaldati 1969:28, 196-97]. In the Yiddish version the plot is much more elaborate than in the …
Polka
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a … military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces from the Yiddish theatre, often in fox-trot, waltz, tango, and even …
Hora (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a … northeastern Romania and among Bukovina Ukrainians. Among Yiddish-speaking Jews, the triple-meter hora is also called … ‘Oriental Hora (B) Excerpts’ [A. Schwartz]... ‘Yiddish Tanz’ [M. Liebowitz].” Phillips 1996a, pp. 59-60, …
Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a … had performed a specific repertoire for Hungarian and Yiddish-speaking Jews consisting of core-repertoire dances … ‘Der Skyliner Khosid’ [A. Statman; A. Schwartz]... ‘Yiddish Khosidl’ [M. Liebowitz]... ‘Behusher Khosid’ [M. …
Badekns (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT) . The LKT compiles a … hair, symbolizing her new status as a married woman. In Yiddish, this is called the badekns (veiling of the bride). … the wedding jester began to sing rhymed couplets in Yiddish, and sometimes in Hebrew as well, accompanied by the …


