Year
1977
"Betzet ḥatan be'et qiddush" (When the groom goes out at the time of qiddush)
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen
"Betzet ḥatan be'et qiddush" (When the groom goes out at the time of qiddush)
Performed by Zadok Zubeiri
Wedding zaffa in the form of a girdle poem with two stanzas and two complementary verses.
Zadok Zubeiri sings and accompanies himself with a tin pan. The melody has three motifs: verses 1-4 and 7-8 are sung to the first, verses 5-6 to the second, and the last three verses to the third. The singer performs many free melismata between the verses and at the end of the song.
