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Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… the song a mythic aura that is commonly associated with folksongs. Dort wo die Zeder consists of four stanzas of six … research, noted a certain family resemblance between the tunes of both songs in a comparative table that he included … pattern (V-I). In short, this is a quintessential European folk melody of the type that can be found in many Jewish …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… influenced by Slavic languages. Both the language and the folksongs, like many other elements of Ashkenazi culture, … of other surrounding languages. In a similar manner, the folksongs of the Ashkenazi Jews bare resemblance to Western … sometimes by religious melodies, and sometimes by study-tunes, and it was needed to be determined what the …
Brakha Tzefira
… event. Tzefira's turn to art music, rather than the Israeli folksong, was acclaimed by some, while criticized by others. … some were impressed by her effort to 'elevate' traditional tunes to the level of art music, others were sorry for her … the oriental melody into Israeli music, symphonic and folkloric, through 30 years of her shows in Israel and …
Elohim Eshala
… Michael Collection, R 0080. This is a copy of the 1958 Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite songs and other Israeli folk songs.” Gill (b. 1932 in Tel Aviv as Geula Levavi from … Elohim Eshala in a broadcast dedicated to Jewish-Yemenite tunes (see the program of the first week of Hebrew …
Hora
… from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a circular folk dance. Later, it came to signify also a specific dance. … two kinds of dance melodies in the Rumanian and Moldavian folklore: slow with triple meter, and fast with duple meter. … by Klezmers and they began composing new Juck Niggunim (tunes). These were used mostly as marching tunes (in …

Society for Jewish Folk Music
… who together formed the “St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music.” Members of the society included the violin … a unique style that merged the melodic elements of Jewish folk and liturgical music – the music of the “klezmer” – … bear the earmarks that we identify with Klezmer music. The tunes are almost universally in minor; often they are in the …

Freylekhs
… case, signifies a musical genre. It seems that Freylekhs tunes comprised the core of the traditional Klezmer … (LKT). [1] Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , Vol. III (М.Я.Береговский. Еврейская народная … Dance Genre , 7. [5] Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , Vol. IV, nos. 49, 133, 140, 142 …
Cute Boy, Charming Girl
… (1882-1948) … Zemer Iveri, Zemer … 23 … 2013 … Israeli Folk Songs … Children's Songs … Israeli Music … Zemer Ivri … …

Zemirot
… origins, and comprising an ever expanding body of folk material.' The texts of the Zemirot describe the joys … heavily on Liturgical modes and formulae. 2. Non-Jewish folk tunes served as the music for the Zemirot texts; these …

Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… terms, such as tants nign or a tenzl. Other terms for dance tunes are: hopke; dreidl; redl or redele (all probably used … and kadatshke (used in various communities). Hassidic dance tunes have defined musical characteristics such as duple … , p. 240; see also Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , 2001, no. 85, 102. [2] See Mazor-Hajdu, The …