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Mordkhe Shekhter
… the University of Vienna, where in 1951 he received his doctoral degree: Aktionen im Jiddischen, ein …
Doyne (LKT)
… instrumental genre often associated with sheperds and pastoral culture, has figured prominently in the repertoire of …
Volekh (LKT)
… and coloratura ad libitum to the main tune in pastoral fashion. Numerous Hassidic dance melodies and weddings … to his ‘dobridzshens’ with his volekhlekh and the other ‘moralishe’ nigunim ... [America is] a strange land with …
Pastukhel (LKT)
… “Pastuchel. A tune composed in the style of a pastoral , perhaps from French pastourelle . The hazanim would …
La Gallarda matadora
… repertoire of Ladino songs was maintained mostly by oral transmission, primarily by women. The romances, for …
Mazltov (LKT)
… played a bazetsens , a sad melody, and the badkhn used to moralize out loud... Thereafter the badkhn would call the …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… of this melody to “Menu h a vesim h a” was part of the oral tradition of Sabbath table songs ( zemirot shabbat ) … as the following 1957 recording of “ H ag Purim” in a choral arrangement shows ( example 11 ). This last change in …
Sirba
… Ukrainians, Transylvanian Hungarians, and even Polish gorale (highlanders from the mountainous regions along the …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… the Eastern and the European versions was mistakes in the oral transmission between European Jews, possibly from …
Karev Yom
… borrowed from some unknown Hassidic source (or even from oral tradition) to the text of ‘Karev yom.’ The melody is a …