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Tin Pan Alley
… Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in New York from the 1890s … Union Square, the location of the ‘alley’ shifted with music publishers to around West 28th Street in the 1890s, … such songwriters as Gerry Goffin and Carole King at Aldon Music, Leiber and Stoller, and Jeff Barry and Ellie …
Badhan
… Hebrew lit. entertainer. A merrymaker, rhymester, and musician who entertains primarily at weddings. Professional …
Klezmer (pl. Klezmorim)
… Eastern-European Jewish folk musician, generally instrumentalist. Also used as modifier to describe the genre of music produced by Klezmorim (e.g. Klezmer music). … Klezmer (pl. Klezmorim) …
Zemirot
… which are sung during and directly after Sabbath meals. The musical versions are numerous and heterogeneous reflecting a … God and his Sabbath and of God's remembrance of his people. Musically, the repertory of Zemirot Sabbath is diverse and eclectic. Within the Ashkenazic musical traditions one can point to a few types of melodies: …
Fal
… that from the first generations of the Hasidic movement, musically skilled Hasidim were aware to the fact that a … [ subjects ]. ' This awareness of Hasidic Menagnim (the musicians, see: Menagen) to the niggun 's division into … book. [6] Vinaver-Schleifer, Anthology of Hassidic Music , p. 150, and no. 47 [pp. 156-163]. … Recorded by …
Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
… hard to define. In most cases, the term refers to a short musical unit, fragment, or snippet, with characteristics that are difficult to define by known musical terms. Generally, but not always, it is to be …
Niggun
… A monophonic folk music composition, vocal or instrumental, with or without …
Mitsve Tants
… the JMRC Cd- The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim. Musical Transcription … Performers: Vizhnitz Choir, … the JMRC Cd- The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim . Musical Transcription … Performer: Avraham Bord, Mendel … recorder: Yaakov Mazor. Tel Aviv, 18.10.1971. NSA Y1120. Musical Transcriptions : Akavia Ben Mehalel , Misod Hakhamim …
Kol Nidrei
… from the beginning of the 8th century C.E. The text and musical setting varies within in the different rites; for …
Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… in various communities). Hassidic dance tunes have defined musical characteristics such as duple meter and fast tempi … [1] See Vinaver-Schleifer, Anthology of Hassidic music , p. 240; see also Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , 2001, no. 85, 102. [2] See Mazor-Hajdu, The …