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Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung … the songs are connected to life-cycle ceremonies such as weddings, births, and deaths. [2] Jewish women in Yemen were … comes after the festive dressing of the bride in her traditional regalia. In some places such as Rada'a, in …
Zemerl (LKT)
… common nusakh [liturgical mode] of the Vizhnitser Hasidic tradition....[it was played] at small celebrations like the … a circumcision, at Hasidic gatherings, as dinner music at Jewish weddings, and at non-Jewish occasions where Jewish tunes …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… 1911.pdf Example 6 Notation and 1st and 7th verses to the wedding song based on "E h ad mi yodea" found in I.L. … the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. An …
A glezele vayn
… … Ellipsis Arts … A glass of wine … 1996 … Klezmer music … Jewish wedding tradition … Jewish festivities … Ashkenazi … Carsten Schelp …
Gasn nign
… Roslyn, New York … Ellipsis Arts … … 1996 … Klezmer music … Jewish wedding tradition … Jewish festivities … Ashkenazi … Alicia Svigals …
Marsh (LKT)
… Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 46 . “A Jewish wedding in the shtetl was a holiday... When Arish the … p. 162 . (Musical notation included). “According to Jewish tradition people bless the new moon each month, and every …
Doyne (LKT)
… other contemplative, free-meter genres in the East European Jewish tradition, including cantorial recitatives, the kale bazetsn … Often performed for guests at the banquet table during a wedding or other celebration, doinas allow a musician to …
Beroyges-tants
… source is a nearly identical description of the same exact wedding excerpted below as Levinsky 1963]. Ben-Yisrael 1960, … p. 1266 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern … circle dancing around them, when the ‘klezmorim’ play the traditional folk song for this scene, ‘Lomir zikh iberbetn’ …
Hora (LKT)
… dance, cf. Bulg. krivo horo ] and other terms. American-Jewish musicians often refer to it as ‘slow hora.’ The … horas were frequently used as processional tunes at Jewish weddings and other celebrations.” Alpert 1993, p. 2 . ( … of modern Israel...The horas in this book derive from a traditional dance from the Moldavia area of Romania and …
Freylekhs (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 commandment/good … he went into a freylekhs , a fast dance in 2/4 time which traditionally follows the doina , the guests would start …