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Tin Pan Alley
Nickname for the popular songwriting and sheet-music publishing industry centred in New…
Badhan
Hebrew lit. entertainer. A merrymaker, rhymester, and musician who entertains primarily…
Klezmer (pl. Klezmorim)
Eastern-European Jewish folk musician, generally instrumentalist. Also used as modifier…
Meshoyrer
Pl. Meshoyrerim. Apprentice to the Hazzan, or Synagogue choirboy.
Zakef Gadol
Masoretic accent, meaning 'major raising' or 'full upright', placed above words in the…
Zakef Katan
Masoretic accent, meaning 'minor raising' or 'lesser upright', placed above words in the…
Zarka
Masoretic accent, meaning 'scatterer' used in the cantillation of the Bible and possibly…
Zemirot
The word Zemirot means literally 'songs' or 'hymns' but is used to refer to two specific…
Niggun dvekut
See: Cleving tune
Fal
In Yiddish, in most of the Hasidic dynasties, the word Fal refers to a section of a…