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Doyne (LKT)
… Often performed for guests at the banquet table during a wedding or other celebration, doinas allow a musician to … 1996b, p. 58 . ( Recording references included). “Jewish weddings musicians played the doina as a table song.” … is one of the richests and most beautiful of Yiddish folk songs. A certain non-Jewish influence heard in the melody is …
Semele (LKT)
… information on this dance. There he cites all the folk songs that mention the semene/semele dance. Cahan introduces … 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 …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual commandment/good … to toss in [contributions] to the collection box. After the wedding the klezmorim used to divide among themselves the … droshe-geshank-oyfshpiln and other entertainment songs...” Fater 1985, pp. 60-61 . “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve …
Beroyges-tants
… source is a nearly identical description of the same exact wedding excerpted below as Levinsky 1963]. Ben-Yisrael 1960, … dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, … dance of Broiges (anger) was a favorite performed at weddings. Sometimes a husband and wife would dance …
Zhok (LKT)
… popular Saturday afternoon dance movement produced new folk songs and dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1267 . “The … “While the zhok had already been transformed into several wedding genres (such as mazltov and opfihren di makhetonim …
Hora (LKT)
… horas were frequently used as processional tunes at Jewish weddings and other celebrations.” Alpert 1993, p. 2 . ( … popular Saturday afternoon dance movement produced new folk songs and dances.” EncyJud 1971, p. 1267 . “The …
Gas-nign (LKT)
… table, street tunes (accompanying the march to the xupe [wedding canopy], leading the in-laws, etc.)...” Beregovski … street while accompanying guests home at night after the wedding feast or the following day after a solemn meal. The … A.] Segal’s expression -- ‘gas-nign’ (street song). These songs accompanied the traditional procession to the house of …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual commandment/good … or line dance, the most common in East European Jewish wedding dance repertoire, in 4/4 rhythm... Khusidl, Khosidl, … accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… formulaic rhymed verses sung by the badkhn or marshalik [wedding poet/master of ceremonies] to a contemplative … the melodies for the ‘seating of the bride’ ritual for the wedding...” [Poland and Russia, 1930s]. Alpert 1996a, p. 15. … [Vilna, c. 1870s-80s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 874 . “After songs had become stylish, especially in Zunser’s times, the …
Dobridzien (LKT)
… stems from the Middle Ages, when people used to give the wedding couple honey with cheese while they made the … an allusion to ‘honey and milk under your tongue’ (Song of Songs, 4:11)... Harkavi, in the already cited Verterbukh , … that was played to honor the bride in the morning of the wedding-day. From such a definition it must be concluded …