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Shemele (LKT)
… outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about this style, no definitive … ‘Women, clap! Take pleasure that both mothers-in-law are dancing a shemele ’ If a man such as Eliokum Tzunser sang a … clap, you’ve got your pleasure! Both mothers-in-law are dancing a shemele .” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1871]. Zunser …
Betlers-tants (LKT)
… lasted seven days, guests and neighbors took part in the dancing and even beggars of the town had the right to dance … that honor, they were given the floor or market-place for dancing, and could dance with the bride.” Lapson 1943, p. … After the meal, the bride and groom danced with the poor folk, and distributed coins among them.” [late nineteenth …
Doyne (LKT)
… doina (Yiddish: doyne or doyna ), a free-meter Romanian folk instrumental genre often associated with sheperds and … Europe. Primarily intended for listening rather than dancing, doinas often serve to showcase a musician’s … The klezmers borrowed the doina music itself. In the Jewish folk song only the plot of the doina was borrowed and …
Kutner (LKT)
… led into a private room... Meanwhile the young men began dancing. Girls danced also but separately. They danced folk dances and waltzes, in which boys dance with boys and … second room, especially as the youngsters who weren’t dancing blocked off the view into the room. Thus no one …
Polka
… Beregovski 1937 [= Beregovski/Slobin 1982, p. 533] . “I am dancing a krayts-polke ...” [Podbrodz, Vilna province, … that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and … is a] song for [the] polka-dance... The melody is Polish folk.” [Galicia, 1920s-30s]. Pipe 1971a, pp. 164 (#53), 308 …
Sher
… 1982, p. 526, n. 18] . “Gathering data on Jewish folk dances, and especially on the widespread frejlaxs and … references, the šer is also mentioned very rarely in folk songs. These folk songs are all from the Ukraine (cf. … four couples grouped in a quartet. Also the essence of the dancing and their participation is explained by various …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… It was also featured in many publications of Jewish folk songs in the early 20th century as a wordless Hassidic … und West in 1910 ( example 1 ) and in Kisselgof's Jewish folk song collection of 1912 ( example 2 ). The similarity … Yaacov Mazor mentions the same melody in relation to the dancing of the seventh Hakkafah for Sim h at Torah among the …
Skotshne/Skochne
… frejlaxs are very popular in that village and are sung for dancing. Bystanders who are not dancing clap their hands. … This could not have been adopted from the Ukrainian folk music, since there were far fewer professionally-trained Ukrainian folk musicians than Jewish ones.” Beregovski 1937 [= …
Vals (LKT)
… that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and … 1994, p. 10 . “A ‘kozak’ [and a freylekhs ]... were folk-dances for adults and in-laws. The youth strutted its … The Hasidic waltzes are usually not intended for dancing; like the Hasidic marche, they are generally sung …
Zemerl (LKT)
… reference. “...a zemerl [pl. zmires ]...is a religious folk song in Hebrew or Aramaic sung on the Sabbath. Bearing … commonly sung to a variety of tunes, as a zemerl (religious folk song).” Schlesinger, Alpert, Rubin 1989 . ( Recording … would gather at the bride’s home for a “goodbye party” and dancing. The klezmorim would play until late at night. Their …