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Badhan
… Hebrew lit. entertainer. A merrymaker, rhymester, and musician who entertains primarily at weddings. Professional Jewish singers called badhanim or leizanim ('jesters') are … and at Hanukkah and Purim celebrations. In Eastern European Jewish communities, the badhan worked as a professional …
Klezmer (pl. Klezmorim)
… Eastern-European Jewish folk musician, generally instrumentalist. Also used as modifier to describe the genre of music produced by Klezmorim (e.g. Klezmer music). … Klezmer …
Zemirot
… which are sung during and directly after Sabbath meals. The musical versions are numerous and heterogeneous reflecting a … and leaned heavily on Liturgical modes and formulae. 2. Non-Jewish folk tunes served as the music for the Zemirot texts; … Bohemian, Hungarian and Polish secular songs and dances. 3. Jewish melodies either newly composed or already in use in …
Dance tune (Niggun rikud)
… in various communities). Hassidic dance tunes have defined musical characteristics such as duple meter and fast tempi … [1] See Vinaver-Schleifer, Anthology of Hassidic music , p. 240; see also Moshe Beregovski, Jewish Instrumental Folk Music , 2001, no. 85, 102. [2] …
Kolomeyke (LKT)
… and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … or refer to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the … repertoire consisted of local dance tunes of non-Jewish origin played by klezmorim for non-Jews, and also, at …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (petition) is a religious practice maintained by several Jewish communities. It consists of gatherings that occur … in that the piyyutim are arranged according to the maqamat (musical modes) in use in the court music of the Ottoman … which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing in the Middle East, went …
Ma'oz Tzur
… Temple in Jerusalem, praise for God’s deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt, Babylonian exile and Haman’s plot, … tradition dating back to the 15th century. According to musicologists A.Z. Idelsohn and E. Birnbaum the melody of …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… development against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock … Hanoch Avenary, “The Aspects of Time and Environment in Jewish Traditional Music,” Israel Studies in Musicology, IV …
Purim, Purim, Purim lanu
… Images: Musical Transcription Transcription done by Abraham Zvi … to serve as hazzan (cantor) of the flourishing Portuguese Jewish community. In this city, he taught the Oriental … Turkey and Greece. Through this collection, the Western Jewish communities became familiar with the songs of Rabbi …
Prayer for the state
… Synagogue … Liturgical Innovation in a Nation-State: The Music of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the State of … for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” The Jewish Oral Law, the Mishnah, carried on the same idea: … world,” which are a plea for the reunification of all the Jewish people. … Kol Israel … Israel … Prayer … …