(233 results found)
Freylekhs (LKT)
… plays with the band’s accompaniment...” [Orgajev, Bessarabia, c. 1930s-1940s]. Bik 1964 . ( Musical notation … borrowed by Moldavians, is provided by the dance tune ‘Bessarabian freilikh.’ ‘Freilikh’ is the Yiddish ‘freylekhs,’ … derive from a Moldavian (or the geographically close, Bessarabaian) take on a Bulgarian dance. A sher is a ‘scissors’ …
Hora (LKT)
… Musical notation and recording references included). “‘Bessarabian Hora’ [Belf’s Romanian Orchestra]... ‘Boyberikier … term can also refer to the zhok form. In the East, in Bessarabia they use the term ‘zhok’.” Phillips 1996b, p. 178 . …
Zhok (LKT)
… zhok was not yet klezmer music. It was Roumanian or Bessarabian...In western Moldavia the term [hora] can also refer to the zhok form. In the East, in Bessarabia they use the term ‘zhok’. Phillips 1996b, pp. 176, …
Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)
… [M. Liebowitz]... ‘Behusher Khosid’ [M. Liebowitz]... ‘Bessarabier Khosidl’ [I.J. Hochman; Kapelye]... ‘Sadeger Khosid’ …
Bulgar (LKT)
… origins are not certain, it likely derives from the Bessarabian bulgareasca , named for the ethnic Bulgarian minority in Bessarabia and/or contact with north Bulgaria on the part of Bessarabian Gypsy musicians. A favorite among Jews and non-Jews …
Doyne (LKT)
… Although Braun states that ‘the intrinsic features of the Arab taksim... are preserved in Beregovski’s … piece is a Romaninan doina, with no Jewish, let alone ‘Arab’ features. Beregovski had observed that the distinction … this piece ca. 1917. (A taksim usually refers to the Turco-Arab manner of a rubato exploration of West Asian modes. It …
Taksim (LKT)
… Although Braun states that ‘the intrinsic features of the Arab taksim... are preserved in Beregovski’s … piece is a Romaninan doina, with no Jewish, let alone ‘Arab’ features. Beregovski had observed that the distinction … this piece ca. 1917. (A taksim usually refers to the Turco-Arab manner of a rubato exploration of West Asian modes. It …
Volekh (LKT)
… the synagogue (derived from the province of Wallachia, Bessarabia).” [Zager or Zhagare, Lithuania, late …
Quadrille (LKT)
… earlier from klezmorim that played in Moldavia and Bessarabia at Jewish weddings. This dance melody is interesting … interesting is the augmented second here.” [Moldavia/Bessarabia, c. 1910s-20s]. Sekulitz 1966, p. 50 . “The …
Marsh (LKT)
… khupe the ‘tsu-der-khupe marsh’ is heard.” [Orgajev, Bessarabia, c. 1930s-40s]. Bik 1964 . (Musical notation …