Cantiga - cantica - cantar - canción
A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. Lyric songs, structured mostly as stanzas of four verses in a-b-a-b rhyme or with only the 2nd and 4th verses rhyming, very often with a refrain repeated after each strophe. They have no fixed continuity of the text, except in the case of…
Tvile
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Zemerl (LKT)
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Tekhies hameysim-tants (LKT)
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Tants (Alter yidisher) (LKT)
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Retande (LKT)
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Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
A term used by Hassidim and East European hazzanim; it literally means 'Movement.' An ambiguous term, found in contemporary Hasssidic written and oral sources, and may have several, sometimes contradictory, meanings, that even the Hassidim themselves find hard to define. In most cases, the term…
Responsorial Singing
“Call and response,” “responsive,” or “responsorial” is a singing performance style in which a solo singer (leader) and a group of singers (congregation, choir) sing alternately, in response to each other. It is one of the oldest musical forms and common to many peoples, cultures, and religions.…
Romancero
Collection or corpus of romances (romanzas), which are narrative poems with a well defined textual and musical structure in a unidirectional order of verses.
Zibntrit (LKT)
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Zhok (LKT)
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Zemirot
The word Zemirot means literally 'songs' or 'hymns' but is used to refer to two specific repertories: The first, according to the Sephardic tradition, refers to the preliminary section of psalms and biblical verses recited during the Shacharit (morning) prayers: the Ashkenazic terminology refers to…