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65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
… This is a Judeo-Spanish contrafact of an extremely popular dance melody of the early twentieth century made famous in … The Maxixe has roots in the Polka and Habanera and its dance patterns were apparently a mixture of the Two Step and … record. It has a resemblance to the refrain of the Serbian folksong “Malo ja, malo ti, više ja, nego ti, pa ćemo se …
Nitzan Hen Razael
… in the high school close to the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and then in the high school adjacent to … in violin and composition. Razael was always drawn to folk music and for many years, accompanied famous Israeli … music from both the East and the West, as well as different Jewish music. Razael plays the violin for a variety of …
Curt Sachs
… can be accessed online. Sachs Curt. World History of the Dance , (Ed. 1963). Biographies: Brown Hoard Mayer. 'Sachs, … Claudie. “Curt Sachs.” Journal of the International Folk Music Council 12 (1960): 88–89. (in French) … …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… Beregovski, Evreiskie narodnye napevy bez slov [ Jewish Tunes without Words , 1946]: This research was … time in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … traditional Hassidic melodies were adapted to new texts and dances by the Zionist pioneers in Ottoman and British …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe played in … context, is also favored over other available choices: a folklorized, depoliticized Ethiopianness or alternatively, …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis … us to study, perform, and hear again some of the songs and dances performed by members of substantial, centuries-old …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… made my way up to AMAR to search for historical records of Jewish musicians from Aleppo, the city which, for a long … how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: We …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… Yiẓḥak , or ‘Akedah ) has assumed an important function in Jewish religion and culture since Antiquity. This renowned … the same melody. The melody itself presents a mixture of a folk tune and a psalmodic chant. It is simple, easily … Following the printing revolution, and the subsequent abundance of private prayer books, these prayer practices …

Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… Adler has shown in a lifetime of work, the history of Jewish music is really a set of complex, interlocking … assimilating public. The cameraman who filmed the wedding-dance sequence in the Polish town of Kazimierz Dolny … the only surviving footage of spontaneous pre-Holocaust folk choreography. In the present brief contribution, I will …

Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… to arrive at a plain definition of polyphony, in accordance with present day standards of music research. … 9480 … Vocal … Vocal music … Polyphony … Folk music … Instruments … Percussion … Definitions … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in …