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Hopak (LKT)
… the full reference. “The principal forms [of Russian folk dance] are the korovod and the trepak, the former danced by young girls holding hands,...The popular Russian … Moreover they became multipart works. The borrowed hopak tunes did not keep their name. Alongside of literal …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… the full reference. “These two khusidlekh [Hasidic-style dance tunes, singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a …
Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)
… reference. “These two khusidlekh [Hasidic-style danec tunes, singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a mitsve-tentsl [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to …
Bulgar (LKT)
… or bulgarish is a common East European Jewish music and dance form, usually in 2/4 time. While its musical, … references included). “Bulgar: One of the most common dance and tune genres of the American-Jewish repertoire, … . ( Musical notation and recording references included). “Tunes identified as Bulgars (or Bulgarishes ) in their …
Doyne (LKT)
… transitional or ‘Orientalized’ repertoire consisted of the dance genres named volekh , hora , sirba , ange , and bulgarish . In the non-dance cateogry the most important genre was the doyne ( … a dobranoch were also borrowed in toto. Twenty-five dance tunes in the volume are built on the rhythms and intonations …
Volekh (LKT)
… “Vulekhl: Literally, ‘a Wallachian one,’ i.e., a dance or tune in Romanian-Jewish style.” Alpert 1996b, p. 59 … transitional or ‘Orientalized’ repertoire consisted of the dance genres named volekh , hora , sirba , ange , and … fashion. Numerous Hassidic dance melodies and weddings tunes are in Walachish style: the melody is left to the …
Kozatshok (LKT)
… adopted from the Ukrainian (e.g., the very widespread dance tune kozačok ) and a great number of folk songs sung … and festivities where they undoubtedly played Jewish tunes in addition to the Ukrainian dance-repertoire. In the same way they brought their …
Kozak (LKT)
… and festivities where they undoubtedly played Jewish tunes in addition to the Ukrainian dance-repertoire. In the same way they brought their … notation included). “Let us introduce another example, a dance such as the kozak ( kozačok ) , which was and still is …
Krakoviak (LKT)
… citation, you get the full reference. “You had Polish dance tunes like krakowiak , oberek , na wesolo , mazur and … p. 490 (#229) . “A ‘kozak’ [and a freylekhs ]... were folk-dances for adults and in-laws. The youth strutted its wares …
Quadrille (LKT)
… wept, and shouted ‘Vivat!’ The guests formed a circle and danced an old-fashioned quadrille with him in the middle, … svadebnye obichai ( Perezhitoe 3), the author lists the dances done by girls with the bride at the preliminaries … the klezmers thunder through the ‘sherele’ and ‘kadril’ tunes,’”[Gedara, Palestine, c. 1910s]. Fridhaber 1992, p. …