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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel…
Taksim (LKT)
This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… in their original performance context or with their melodies of old. The Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini, which used … Sefer hashirim (Jerusalem, 1912). Idelsohn included two melodies of the song , attributing the text, as customary, … a vocalese or an instrumental passage. We publish here both melodies ( here and here ) for the first time, edited in …
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 …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… 1971, p. 1265 . “The bands themselves fashioned fitting melodies for the various situations and moods during the … meal,] the musicians played many different types of merry melodies and Reb Simkhe Meyer announced the …
Joseph Shlisky
Joseph Shlisky was born in Ostrowiec Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he…
Chasidic in America
… did not approve of having a popular singer chant the holy melodies for them. There is even documentation of a …