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Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… performed by the musicians and the badkhn (wedding poet/jester), who improvised formulaic rhymed verses emphasizing …
Freylekhs (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Hora (LKT)
… meaning is a binary rhythmic form at a moderate tempo. In western Moldavia the term can also refer to the zhok form. In …
Zhok (LKT)
… yet klezmer music. It was Roumanian or Bessarabian...In western Moldavia the term [hora] can also refer to the zhok …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… the middle of a circle of chosen guests while the badhan (‘jester’), serving as master of ceremonies, called each guests …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… Jewish quotas at the Conservatory, as Gnesin noted: «‘Yesterday they phoned from Stolypin,' Glazunov used to say, …
Lanse (LKT)
… “There are also ‘cosmopolitan repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin’ such as lances, pa de …
Krakoviak (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Quadrille (LKT)
… “There are also ‘cosmopolitan repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin such as lances, pa de …
Londre (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…