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Freylekhs (LKT)
… of one or another šer but of the very style of the melodies itself. The Ukrainian šers are in general very … This could not have been adopted from the Ukrainian folk music, since there were far fewer professionally trained Ukrainian folk musicians than Jewish ones.” Beregovski 1937 [= …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs
… was one of the United States' great and prolific folk singers. Many of his songs dealt with the plight of the … Mazia Greenblatt, and their four children, including famous folk-singer Arlo Guthrie, were. Guthrie met Marjorie in 1942 … Hanukkah , a twelve-song album that includes newly composed melodies to lyrics that Nora found in 1997, adaptations of …
Zhok (LKT)
… This popular Saturday afternoon dance movement produced new folk songs and dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1267 . “The … dancing. Although zhok was sometimes just used as ‘street melodies’ without tunes... Zhok is also quite recent. …
Hopke (LKT)
… the klezmers aso played the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer interpretation … been derived from the Polish dance Hopka or the Ukrainian folk dance Hopak . According to the Modzhitz menaggen …
Hopak (LKT)
… get the full reference. “The principal forms [of Russian folk dance] are the korovod and the trepak, the former … the klezmers aso played the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer interpretation …
Beroyges-tants
… that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has been accompanied by singing; and not only to … outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about this style, no definitive … joy after man revives), is accompanied by three separate melodies. The first part of the dance is accompanied by (1) …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… 1971, p. 1265 . “The bands themselves fashioned fitting melodies for the various situations and moods during the … meal,] the musicians played many different types of merry melodies and Reb Simkhe Meyer announced the … . And this was among a series of dances -- Hassidic, folk-like, led by experts, among them Reb Baruch-Moshe …
Doyne (LKT)
… doina (Yiddish: doyne or doyna ), a free-meter Romanian folk instrumental genre often associated with sheperds and … is [divided] into three parts, borrowing three different melodies, the first section of the dance performed to the … The klezmers borrowed the doina music itself. In the Jewish folk song only the plot of the doina was borrowed and …
Volekh (LKT)
… expressing an elegiac mood, in the manner of Wallachian folk music. The hazanim used to sing a Wulach , for example, … Ana haShem in the Halel prayer, in contrast to the gay melodies that preceded.” Avenary 1960, p. 195 . “ Volekh. ” … does not prove that the music was borrowed [from Moldavian folk music]. In fact just the name was borrowed, perhaps …
Pastukhel (LKT)
… lost and then found sheep formed the basis for the popular folk song ‘Dos pastekhl’ or ‘a pastekh’ (‘The/A Sheperd’). which is sung to two different melodies [Kipnis 1918:129, 1925: 135; Jaldati 1969:28, … is one of the richest and most beautiful of Yiddish folk songs. A certain non-Jewish influence heard in the …