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Tsushpil
… or rhythmic melody following a diona or other free-meter tune]. Alpert 1993, p. 3 . (Recording references …
Polka
… been called upon to play waltzes and mazurkas (both in 3/4 meter), polkas (2/4), tangos (4/4) European military marches …
Sher
… The two dances are also identical in movements in the duple meter of 2/4. In the execution of the ‘freylakhs,’ it is … Russian dance (lit. ‘scissors’) in moderate duple meter, at one time prevalent among Jews of Eastern Europe … in steps to the Virginia Reel. It is played in duple meter, usually written in 2/4, at a moderate tempo, between …
Skotshne/Skochne
… kale bazetsn is always followed by a lively dance in 2/4 meter, in this case two skotshne tunes. Skotshne , a term of …
Terkish (LKT)
… included). “The Terkish / A quasi-Oriental piece in duple meter, slow-moderate in tempo, using a Habanera-like …
Toyten-tants (LKT)
… of two poor orphans, the ceremony taking place in the cemetery, and the rituals and dances being carried out with …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… and English in order to establish what the essential parameters of the poetic structure are in order to find out a … Idelsohn’s versions and theirs, with the first two in a 6\8 meter and Idelsohn’s in 3/4. The second melody differs both …
Vals (LKT)
… Phillips 1996b, p. 176 . “A niggun in the 3/4 waltz meter, usually joyful. Waltzes were adopted from non-Jewish … been called upon to play waltzes and mazurkas (both in 3/4 meter)...” Sokolow 1987, p. 20 . “The guests would order …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… through musical improvisations. These were sung in a free meter and were performed during solo prayer sections, as …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… in an ABAB form. Rhythmically, the song is in duple meter and it mostly has simple and symmetrical rhythmic …