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Doyne (LKT)
… and modified. Jewish [instrumental] [sic] doinas, whether called that or not, were performed by the klezmers at … had been used before the doina came in. It is not clear what they meant by that...There was a kind of melody that … that are not typical of doina. No doubt that influenced what the Jews considered taksim; it is possible that some …
Semele (LKT)
… a folk song (Ginzburg-Marek 1901: no. 254) mentions a dance called semene (Moliver, Vilna, Kovno gubernias ): Gave a … here’s a payem (?), play me a semele , Xanele xosele , is what they called Avremele. Cahan 1931 has little information … already sing this song, it is probably very old. But what is relevant is that the name of the dance is also found …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… Solomon Rosowsky published a short memoir, in which he recalled a joke from his student days a half century earlier: … his Jewish minority status that transformed his view of what Jewishness meant in modern Russia. As his memoirs … Jews we had. I told them to answer, 'We haven't counted.'» What caused this stubborn defense of his Jewish music …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… the badhan (‘jester’), serving as master of ceremonies, called each guests by name to step forward and dance with … mitzvah dance’ as described above... I mentioned the dance called the ‘ shabbat dance.’ When we analyze its pattern and … simply means went to dance at a wedding. Bodnshats brings what Buksdorf wrote about mitsve-tants and he describes, as …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… that burst into popularity during his time and was called by the name ‘Separation from Birth’. Indeed the … Saturday night,] the special dance with the bride that was called ‘kosher-tants’ (the kosher dance) was arranged. The … 166, 214 . ( Musical notation included). “And then came what was known as the Koschertanz... The bride... [held] her …
Gas-nign (LKT)
… literal translation of gas-nign is ‘street tune.’ This is what the klezmorim called the pieces they played on the street while …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… much joy and happiness. With the dreidle we will play, Do whatever we like; Of our father we will demand To get some … of Folkways Records, in 1949. One is a twenty-verse song called The Many and the Few , which begins with Cyrus' …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… 1927 he transcribed a whole series of frejlaxs , which they called frejlik , from Ukrainian peasants in the village of … , and melodically they have no non-Jewish traits.... From what many klezmorim tell us, the skočna among Jews was not … skočne , karahod, redl, drejdl, kajlexikes, rikudl , etc.? What did they call it in your area?” Beregovski 1937 …
Badekns (LKT)
… her new status as a married woman. In Yiddish, this is called the badekns (veiling of the bride). [This melody was] … ratzon’ ... When the [money] pot was already full Yenkl called Khayim with his band to play a ‘freylekhs.’ People … it be your will), Arish [the klezmer fiddler] understood what this meant: People should now petition the master of …
Dobranotsh (LKT)
… hyperlink at the end of each citation. “With what sort of piece did the musicians start a wedding ( … dobri ’, in Yiddish euphemistic language therefore one was called by euphemisms: ‘ opshpiln a bezon, a viston, a … at the groom’s on the night before the badekns was called -- kaboles-ponem .” Lerer 1924. pp. 392-393 . …