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Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… dance movement can be correlated to a number of musical parameters involving melodic density, rhythmic structure, …
Ramon Tasat
Ramón Tasat was born in Buenos Aires. He learned Ladino at his grandmother’s knee. He…
Gershom Sizomu
Gershom Sizomu is an Ugandan rabbi serving the Abayudaya, a Baganda community in…
Ya'akov Orland
… as an eminent songwriter, skilled balladist, master of meter and rhyme, and a gifted translator from English and …
Zecharia Plavin
Born in Vilnius in 1956, studied at the Ciurlionis School of Arts and Vilnius…
Joseph Achron
… died April, 29, 1943, and was buried in the Bet-Olam Cemetery , Los Angeles . Achron, the violinist-virtuoso, …
Marc Lavry
… hora, imitating the short metrical phrases and duple meter characteristic of the traditional folk dance. His …
Sasha Argov
… of the text through the effects of pitch, rhythm and meter. Argov was also a prolific composer of film and …
Emanuel Zamir
… by the Debka dance, immersed himself in its rhythm, meter, intricate changes, and the determination of this …
Shmerke Kaczerginski
Born in Vilna to a poor family and educated at that city’s Talmud Torah, Shmerke…