Communal singing
* This entry is a summarized version of the full artice about communal singing, by Talila Eliram. To read the full article, see below.
Communal singing (or public singing,) is a tradition that began in the Halutz movements in the Diaspora, while anticipating their immigration and settling in…
Concerto (LKT)
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Contrafactum
A term borrowed from medieval Christianity. It refers to a technique of converting either a secular song into a religious song or vice versa by altering the words.
This technique was used in 12th century Spain, as poets and Paytanim would write above the first line of their poem a reference…
Contre-danse (LKT)
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Coplas - Complas
A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition.. Strophic poems, with various but very definite textual structures, in a characteristic continuity or coherence of the text. Most coplas were composed in the 17th and 18th centuries, and many more up to our century. Their subjects related to…
Czardas (LKT)
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Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
A tune used mostly for dancing. The Hebrew term is likely a translation of the earlier Yiddish terms, such as tants nign or a tenzl. Other terms for dance tunes are: hopke; dreidl; redl or redele (all probably used by Polish hassidim[1]); freylekhs; and kadatshke (used in various communities…
Debka (LKT)
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Diwan
In Arab culture, a Diwan is an anthology of poems by one or several poets. In the medieval Hebrew poetry of Al-Andalus, the term Diwan meant exclusively a collection of poems by a single author. Today however, the term refers to an anthology of poems by a number of authors.
The Diwan of the Jews…
Dobranotsh (LKT)
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Dobridzien (LKT)
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Doyne (LKT)
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