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Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… origins can be traced back to a dispute between rabbinic sages in the days of Alexander Jannaeus (c. 100 B.C.E) during … part of the performance of texts within the various yearly and life-cycle ceremonies. In some cases, certain … Karaite communities are most likely influenced by the same Middle Eastern source, whose origins can be found in the …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… in the latter region it was influenced by Slavic languages. Both the language and the folksongs, like many other … musical development of the tradition, despite the lack of early documentation of the musical aspect. One might assume … traditionally used to learn canonical texts (Opening); a middle section, which is characterized by a repetition of a …
Chasidic in America
… responding with an improvisatory scat singing passage, clearly reminiscent of similar vocal gestures employed by … ambivalent status placed the cantor as a kind of “spiritual middleman,” who negotiated “the realm between religion and … of the Passover seder . Among the rich cantorial passages on the album, many of which were based on the …
Dobridzien (LKT)
… well and good. The custom of eating cheese stems from the Middle Ages, when people used to give the wedding couple honey with … 182-83 . “The day of the wedding the klezmer had to arrive early in the morning to play a gut-morgn for the parents of …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… di kale . The bazetsns went the following way: In the middle of the room a stool was placed and there the bride … klezmorim , who played between verses solo obbligato passages on violin, clarinet or flute...The kale bazetsn is … Jewish Folk Music of the Ukrainian S.S.R. recorded in the early to mid-1930s. They play the tune as a freylekhs tsu …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) were sung in other Ukrainian villages cannot be ruled out...” Beregovski 1935 [= … there husid or khosid )...” Feldman 1994, p. 32 . “In the middle of the street had to be the khupe , thereafter he … with a different ending form in the style of the period....Nearly all the melodies reach their peak on the second phrase …
La Gallarda matadora
… for this link is the similarity between the musical languages of the two genres. Fusions between Sephardic music and … into the coalesced art form known as flamenco around the middle of the 19 th century. This process took place during … in some interesting commercial renditions, e.g. a very early one by Haim Effendi , I will focus here on the latter. …
Sher
… around 1830 (in Czechoslovakia) and the quadrille in the early nineteenth century (Parisian), and the lancers was … the ‘sher’ dance was even in use among Jews during the Middle Ages and moved with them over time to Eastern Europe. It was …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… structure of questions and answers and its numbers are nearly identical to those in “E h ad mi yodea,” with some of … has been the basis for several songs in different languages. Hereby follow some examples. H abad H asidism The H … Theodore Bikel who sings it in the folk-song medium, a Middle-Eastern inspired version by Frank London , and a …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… piyyutim The baqqashot singing tradition Piyyutim for the yearly cycle and life-cycle Summary Bibliography The … especially during the High Holidays, and the newer layer of Middle-Eastern Arabic musical style, which was crystallized … custom in Spain and in the Land of Israel during the Middle-Ages (Rabbi Yehuda ben Barzillai, who lived in the 11 th …