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«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, …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… the middle of a circle of chosen guests while the badhan (‘jester’), serving as master of ceremonies, called each guests …
Zhok (LKT)
… yet klezmer music. It was Roumanian or Bessarabian...In western Moldavia the term [hora] can also refer to the zhok …
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 …
Freylekhs (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… performed by the musicians and the badkhn (wedding poet/jester), who improvised formulaic rhymed verses emphasizing …
Badekns (LKT)
… back to where he waited. During this ceremony, the wedding jester began to sing rhymed couplets in Yiddish, and …
The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical and Musical Observations
… Jewry … … Hassidim … Badkhan … 2003 … Hasidim … Badkhn … Jester … Wedding-structure … Ashkenazi … Yaakov Mazor … …
Andalusian Nuba
… The Nuba is a multi movement work (similar to the suite in western music), with a very complex system of connections … music. Seemingly, the intervals are parallel to those of western music (tones and semi-tones), and if one would transcribe the scales and melodies in western notation, they would not need to use Eastern …
Tree of Life
… religious music in Israel. This includes praying at the Western Wall, a Jazz version of the Song of Songs, an …