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Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual …
Semele (LKT)
… dance. Cahan introduces some German folk songs as well as Jewish ones in which we find a similar dance. However, the … itself was forgotten, but Zunser, who sang his songs for wedding guests, would certainly not have needed to mention a … it may be, that people did not want to let it into a proper wedding. We find a small hint about the ‘semele’ in an …
Shemele (LKT)
… p. 24 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of …
Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)
… singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual …
Bulgar (LKT)
… “ Bulgar or bulgarish is a common East European Jewish music and dance form, usually in 2/4 time. While its … of the most common dance and tune genres of the American-Jewish repertoire, popular in parts of Eastern Europe in the … Bik 1964 , ( Musical notation included). “After the wedding-feast they began to dance. The dances were varied …
Doyne (LKT)
… other contemplative, free-meter genres in the East European Jewish tradition, including cantorial recitatives, the kale … but structured melody for listening, from the Romanian-Jewish repertoire. Often performed for guests at the banquet table during a wedding or other celebration, doinas allow a musician to …
Volekh (LKT)
… but structured melody for listening, from the Romanian-Jewish repertoire. Often performed for guests at the banquet table during a wedding or other celebration, doinas allow a musician to … ‘a Wallachian one,’ i.e., a dance or tune in Romanian-Jewish style.” Alpert 1996b, p. 59 . “Wulach, Woloch’l. A …
Pastukhel (LKT)
… 1960, p. 192 . “[America is] a strange land with strange weddings... [where] a wedding-feast [happens] without a ‘volekhl,’ or a … and most beautiful of Yiddish folk songs. A certain non-Jewish influence heard in the melody is probably Ukrainian. …
Flakstants (LKT)
… the ‘Tog Morgn Zshurnal’ through Menashe Unger): In the wedding of my cousin’s son, I observed the flax dance. This … However it is worth adding that the others, the [non-Jewish] Lithuanians, had their ‘flax dance,’ but to a …
Kozatshok (LKT)
… reference. “Sometimes, however, certain [Ukrainian, non-Jewish] melodies are deliberately adopted as extraethnic. In Jewish folk music we have a certain number of melodies … . “Jewish musicians used to play frequently at non-Jewish weddings and festivities where they undoubtedly played …