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A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… in the ninth volume of his Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (1932), which is dedicated to Yiddish song (example … Except for the leap of a fourth in the opening phrase, both melodies feature simple stepwise progression. Additionally, except for the cadences, the rhythm of the melodies progresses in eighth notes. The second variant is …
Zemerl (LKT)
… The klezmorim would play until late at night. Their melodies were known by the names ‘zmires’ or ‘ …
Valtzer (LKT)
… danced until daybreak... The klezmorim played all kinds of melodies for the dances. The dancers requested ‘tents’ …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… defined melody usually sung by the congregation. The prayer melodies were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and … his books with signs indicating the foreign sources to the melodies at the opening of each piyyut . Piyyutim during the … 1830 and died in Cairo in 1919. He composed many texts for melodies that become an integral part of the Aleppan Jewish …
Troyer-nign (LKT)
… full reference. “The bands themselves fashioned fitting melodies for the various situations and moods during the …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… up to the number five.” (Rubin, 1963: 58) Two different melodies to this song were documented. The first one was …
Tekhies hameysim-tants (LKT)
… is [divided] into three parts, borrowing three different melodies, the first section of the dance performed to the …
Skotshne/Skochne
… was used by some klezmorim to indicate freylekhs -type melodies which were technically more demanding.” Rubin 1997, …
Sher
… of one or another šer but of the very style of the melodies itself. The Ukrainian šers are in general very … 1971, p. 1270 . “The bands themselves fashioned fitting melodies for the various situations and moods during the … New Sher ‘), is as follows....This text is sung to various melodies. The best known one, which is unusally developed in …
Interview with Andy Statman
… This book contains a collection of 120 melodies transcribed from recordings by renowned klezmer …