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Parallels Between the Old–French and the Jewish Song
… article in which Idelsohn tries to show traces of Jewish music in French folk music. Jews settled in France in the fourth century; …
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
… 'Klezmer' is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player … made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throughout Jewish eastern Europe before the culture was destroyed in … Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in America. Klezmer music is now experiencing a tremendous new spurt of interest …
Voices of the People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong
… seminal work of Ruth Rubin, a pioneering collector, singer, folklorist, writer, and crusader for the vanishing legacy of … annotations weave each text into the larger story of the Jewish experience. Noted scholar Mark Slobin provides a new … … 568 … Illinois … University of Illinois Press … … Scores, Music scores … Score, Music scores … 2000 … Biography … …
Klezmer music in America: revival and beyond
… Klezmer music has experienced changing musical content and social … bar mitzvahs, etc.) and was associated especially with the Jewish resort milieu of the Catskills. The 1970s revival, related to the general ethnic and folk revival in America, attempted a return to the sound of …
Hobn Mir a Nigndl
… The Jewish “troubadours” were wandering musicians active between the two World Wars in Eastern … scores … Score, Music scores … 7 … 9477 … 2000 … Analysis … Folk songs … History … Poetry … Score … Scores … Yiddish … …
Folkslieder
… The first volume of a projected multi-volume anthology of Jewish folklore … 3 … 3 … 1 … 36953 … … 1962 … Eastern Europe … Folk music … Folk songs … Folklore … Ethnography … Yiddish … …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… … 3 … 3 … 2 … The YIVO Encyclopedia of East European Jewish History and Culture … The YIVO Encyclopedia of East … … New Haven … Yale University Press … … Eastern Europe … Folk music … History … Europe … Culture … East … Cult … James …
The Dybbuk - Der dibuk
… 1912-1917. The idea for the play came to Ansky as he led a Jewish folklore expedition through small towns of Eastern Europe, … actors and historical advisors. The film's exquisite musical and dance interludes evoke the cultural richness of …
Musical Characteristics of East-European Jewish Folk-song
… in its entirety click on the link above. … 4 … 3 … The Musical Quarterly … The Musical Quarterly … 35578 … 634-645 … … 18 … 1932 … Eastern Europe … Folk music … Folk songs … Ashkenaz … Europe … Melodies … … Zvi Idelsohn … Musical Characteristics of East-European Jewish Folk-song …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… was an outcome of a complex response to Wagnerian racial-musical theory via the intermediary of Houston Stuart … relationship to Wagner, in that his expression of the ‘Jewish soul’ and use of Jewish traditional elements, both … idea that true creativity relies on the immersion in the folk sources of one’s tradition. If this paradox was crucial …