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Betlers-tants (LKT)

… After the meal, the bride and groom danced with the poor folk, and distributed coins among them.” [late nineteenth …

… doina (Yiddish: doyne or doyna ), a free-meter Romanian folk instrumental genre often associated with sheperds and … The klezmers borrowed the doina music itself. In the Jewish folk song only the plot of the doina was borrowed and … structure. From more recent publications [on Moldavian folk music] [sic], in particular Kotliarov 1955 and 1973 we …

Volekh (LKT)

… expressing an elegiac mood, in the manner of Wallachian folk music. The hazanim used to sing a Wulach , for example, … does not prove that the music was borrowed [from Moldavian folk music]. In fact just the name was borrowed, perhaps … vollechel, with the endearing diminuitive el). Style of folk song, either in recitative or rhythmical manner, that …

Pastukhel (LKT)

… lost and then found sheep formed the basis for the popular folk song ‘Dos pastekhl’ or ‘a pastekh’ (‘The/A Sheperd’). … is one of the richest and most beautiful of Yiddish folk songs. A certain non-Jewish influence heard in the …

Kozatshok (LKT)

… melodies are deliberately adopted as extraethnic. In Jewish folk music we have a certain number of melodies adopted from … very widespread dance tune kozačok ) and a great number of folk songs sung to the melodies of popular Ukrainian … music... It is noteworthy that in both belles lettres and folklore the kozačok is mentioned much more frequently …

Kozatske (LKT)

… citation, you get the full reference. “In the [Yiddish folksong] Hatskele , a poor aunt asks the musicians to play … 1987, p. 21 . “ Kazatske -- A Yiddishized Russian folk-dance.” Reyzen 1945, p. 6 . “Some dances were …

Kozak (LKT)

… music... It is noteworthy that in both belles lettres and folklore the kozačok is mentioned much more frequently … 245-46 (#263) . “Also a ‘kozak’ [and a freylekhs ]... were folk-dances for adults and in-laws. The youth strutted its …

Krakoviak (LKT)

… p. 490 (#229) . “A ‘kozak’ [and a freylekhs ]... were folk-dances for adults and in-laws. The youth strutted its … c. 1909].” Tshernovetski 1946, pp. 97-114 . “The Jewish folkmusic, as well as the Synagogical music, shows that …

Quadrille (LKT)

… that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and … [New York, c. World War I].] Raboy 1920, p. 25 . “Jewish folk dance melody ‘ sher kadril ’. This melody was recorded … Sekulitz 1966, p. 50 . “The dance-song is a collective folk-expression which derived from the need to sing for the …