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Sher
… you get the full reference. “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian … their weddings and celebrations, to which they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the šer …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… 82-83. Example 8 Harry Coopersmith, editor, Little Books of Jewish Songs: Purim , Chicago: Board of Jewish Education, 1928. Example 9 Jacob Schoenberg, Shirei … ( example 5 ). It is possible that Beregovsky heard this dance tune played by a klezmer instrumental ensemble. The …
Shrayer
… at the end of each citation, you get the full reference. “Jewish klezmorim often played at non-Jewish weddings, festivities, entertainments, and so on. … is interesting to establish whether non-Jews adopted Jewish dances. We know of cases in which Ukrainian peasants took up …
Sirba
… (Romanian Sirba ) is another traditional Romanian music and dance genre, known throughout the east Carpathian region … motion in the melody performed against a brisk 2/4 rhythm, Jewish sirbas -- especially outside Romania -- do not … hora, and sirba or other brisk tune are common in non-Jewish musical traditions of northeast Romania and southern …
Skotshne/Skochne
… at the end of each citation, you get the full reference. “Jewish musicians used to play frequently at non-Jewish weddings and festivities where they undoubtedly … played Jewish tunes in addition to the Ukrainian dance-repertoire. In the same way they brought their …
Tants (Alter yidisher) (LKT)
… 223 . (Musical notation included). “‘ Shemonah-esreh ’ Dance”.“Tzvi Fridhaber, scholar of Jewish dance, Haifa, writes to us:... I was approached by Ms. Chava …
Terkish (LKT)
… you get the full reference. “ Bulgar was the American Jewish name for a dance genre which had come to epitomize the entire klezmer dance repertoire... [Andre] Hadju also confuses the terms …
Tish-nign (LKT)
… Alpert 1996a, p. 16. “These klezmorim know many pieces: dance, instrumental works played at the table, street tunes … what I understand, the best klezmorim didn’t even play the dance tunes, they’d just come and play the tish nigunim , …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish traditions. “E h ad mi yodea” is a cumulative song. … – God; two – the two tablets of the covenant; three – the Jewish patriarchs; four – the Jewish matriarchs; five – the … I am a “ marshalok ” jester, and dance a “ hoptshiktshok ” in one shoe and one sock, in my …
Tvile
… the bride was led into the mikve with klezmer and old women danced in front of her.” [Staro-Konstantin, Ukraine, … with a crowd, with song and music and klezmorim and even dances, was established not only among the ancient tribes of Israel but in certain times also among Jewish Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine... ‘The klezmorim …