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The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… (Nusah) The synagogue conducts prayers according to the Western European Sephardic tradition, with minimal, late … style of this synagogue is the result of a mixture of Western and Eastern elements. A similar fusion is found in … were documented and transcribed by Jewish and non-Jewish western Europeans who classified them as exotic examples of …
Racheli Galay
… Israel. She earned her doctoral degree in Cello from Northwestern University, Masters from Indiana University and a … the 44th Association of Jewish Libraries Convention, Northwestern University Musicology Colloquium, The University of …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… in an article on the Zionist movement in Stryj/Stryi (in Western Ukraine). [7] More interesting however is the … as ‘Jüdische Volksmelodie’ but is also attributed to ‘Oestermann.’ In a footnote there is an additional reference …
Tree of Life
… religious music in Israel. This includes praying at the Western Wall, a Jazz version of the Song of Songs, an …
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 …
The Badkhn in Contemporary Hasidic Society: Social, Historical and Musical Observations
… in Polish Jewry … … Badkhan … 2003 … Hasidim … Badkhn … Jester … Wedding-structure … Ashkenazi … Yaakov Mazor … …
Badekns (LKT)
… back to where he waited. During this ceremony, the wedding jester began to sing rhymed couplets in Yiddish, and …
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 …