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Shir hama’alot - The umbilical cord between liturgical and domestic soundspheres in Ashkenazi culture
… manginot mibeit Abba", produced by Renanot : Institute for Jewish music. CD1703 in the National Sound Archive. Score … times of happiness and bodily pleasure. [1] The custom of singing Shir hama’alot before the mealtime Grace is … the second half of the twentieth century, when many German Jewish liturgical traditions fell into oblivion, the …
Chasidic in America
… (as can be found on the track's entry at the Freedman Jewish Sound Archive ) while others to Alexander Olshanetsky … first beat and Oysher responding with an improvisatory scat singing passage, clearly reminiscent of similar vocal … song in an ambivalent position between the Eastern European Jewish and the Afro-American musical realms. Indeed Hankus …
Likhvod Hatanna Haelokai (In Honor of the Holy Tanna)
… the written sources, Yaari found that the “Musta'aravim” (Jewish residents of the Land of Israel, who, for … haircut. During these celebrations, members of the various Jewish communities sing piyyutim that were written in honor … were some singers who had the 'Hazakah' (privilege) of singing 'Likhvod Ha-Tanna Ha-Elokai', and the song would be …
Kale bazetsen (LKT)
… as bazetsn di kale (seating the bride) or bazingen di kale (singing to the bride). Performed mainly for female members … was an important ritual at the traditional East European Jewish wedding. It was usually performed by the musicians …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual … also play frejlaxs at weddings, sometimes accompanied by singing... The possibility that such songs (e.g., frejlaxs ) …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… Within his vast oeuvre there are a handful of songs with Jewish themes, and a few of them are specifically related to Hanukkah. Guthrie himself was not Jewish; however his second wife, Marjorie Mazia Greenblatt, … the presence of Irish singer Susan McKeown, who alternates singing verses with Lorin Sklamberg, the Klezmatics' …
Beroyges-tants
… for a long time now the folkdance has been accompanied by singing; and not only to [modern couple dances such as] the … p. 1266 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of …
La Gallarda matadora
… southern region of Spain that includes instrumental music, singing and dance. Theories as to how and when flamenco took … who brought the seeds of flamenco to Spain. Moreover, the Jewish expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula occurred … of the history of flamenco almost always mention some Jewish influence on the development of flamenco, although it …
Quadrille (LKT)
… with him in the middle, just as at a wedding in a little Jewish town.” [Nikolayev, Kherson province, afterwards, … a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and not only to [modern couple dances such … [New York, c. World War I].] Raboy 1920, p. 25 . “Jewish folk dance melody ‘ sher kadril ’. This melody was …
Marsh (LKT)
… Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 46 . “A Jewish wedding in the shtetl was a holiday... When Arish the … tunes which were usually adopted from the surrounding non-Jewish cultures. The adoption of marches by Hasidim is part … Hasidic marches are not intended for marching but for singing. Marches are introduced during the services to …