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“Unter dem kinds Wiegele” – Beneath the Baby’s Cradle
… Stutschewsky described the Yiddish lullaby as a genre as follows: Here lies the moment for a gentle song, to …
Lied ohne Worte (chassidisch)
… Jews we find numerous “songs without words” as a typical genre. Out of the singing without words (both among the …
Zoock (Volkstanz) – Zhok (Folk dance)
… of traditional Jewish life. Stutschewsky wrote about this genre in his book on klezmer: The Zoock was performed … well entered the klezmer repertoire, and several of these genres even carry the names of famous klezmer players. And … (Stutschewsky 1959: 216) This Moldavian and Rumanian dance genre in fast triple meter appeared mainly as a wedding …
Eliyahu Hacohen
… Hacohen was perhaps among the most notable ones in this genre of learned individuals. In hundreds of essays (if not …
Tzur mishelo akhlanu
… The present example, one of the most famous poems in this genre, is inspired by Birkat hamazon (The Grace after …
Halleluya halleli nafshi (Psalm 146)
… beat, yet with changing meter. This is one of the oldest genres of Sephardi liturgical music. It is used for singing …
Nani quere el hijo (La mujer engañada)
… common rhyme, í-a, following a common scheme of the romance genre. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… The two texts differ in their language, theme and genre. The first “song” is in fact a collection of biblical …
Sarah Harat
… an authentic performer of Yemenite women’s poetry in every genre: henna and wedding songs, songs for the mother of the …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… to the development of a self-contained liturgical poetic genre, the reshut . ( Granat 2016 ) Although this term … in this case, a feature extremely rare in this liturgical genre. However, psalmody’s rhythmic principle of having a …