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Arbie Orenstein
… College, where he has taught for 45 years, focusing on European music history and Jewish music. Arbie Orenstein is …
On a Particular Case of Tonal, Modal, and Motivic Components in Sources for Liturgical Music of East and West European Origins
… Components in Sources for Liturgical Music of East and West European Origins …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… to sing them on the stage. She was widely popular in Europe and later in the United States, where she moved after … Oriental Melodies: Volume 9 The Folk Song of the East European Jews . Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister. Noy, Dov and …
Vals (LKT)
… repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin such as lances, pa de span, padekater, … cultures by the Hasidic dynasties in Poland and Central Europe such as Gur, Karlin, Modzhitz and Zanz, as part of … words were sung which went with the rhythms... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest to an …
Jüdische Volksmusik: Eine mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte
… the modern conceptualization of Jewish folksongs in Central European learned circles of musicians and Jewish studies …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… versions in Yiddish and in Russian appeared in the Eastern European communities. The non-Ashkenazi versions, on the … they would omit the final one. He then assumed that the Europeans added a thirteenth stanza in order to … the reason for the differences between the Eastern and the European versions was mistakes in the oral transmission …
Toyten-tants (LKT)
… During the time of the great epidemics sweeping over Europe, mass hysteria led to the custom of the uniting in …
Terkish (LKT)
… sirto and suggests connections between the Jews of Eastern Europe and the Greek inhabitants of the Turkish Empire of …
Skotshne/Skochne
… performed in 3/4 and at times in 2/4. Jewish Eastern Europe was not fixated on one particular style of dance. At …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… we dedicate the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, was set … became one of the canonical children songs for Purim in Europe and in the Jewish settlement in Palestine/Israel … children. As a most widely recognized melody in the Eastern European Jewish world, the melody of “ H ag Purim” was …