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Woody Guthrie's Hanukah Songs

… on American music is incalculable, as new generations of musicians continue to adapt and be inspired by his work. …

Hora (LKT)

… cf. Bulg. krivo horo ] and other terms. American-Jewish musicians often refer to it as ‘slow hora.’ The rhythm and …

… grows more cheerful, and sings to the accompaniment of the musicians: ‘Let’s make up, the world is like a dream/Let’s … toward the other: the crowd sings, ‘Make up, make up,’ the musicians let loose, ‘Make up, make up,’ the two pairs of … their hands: ‘Let’s make up, make up!’ The fiddle of a musician from Tiktin blends in with a thin litle sigh, ‘make …

Kosher-tants (LKT)

… festivities in the town...there were the sweet notes of the musicians who were preparing themselves for Friday afternoon …

Mitsve-tants (LKT)

… Fridkin 1925, pp. 44-7 . “[After the meal,] the musicians played many different types of merry melodies and …

«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music

… university-level students in the late Russian Empire was a musician at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. [3] While the … of Russians and Jews with the dramatic spectacle of Jewish musicians at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The history of … common pattern of empty mechanical skill and art-less musicianship echoed the same ideas of Richard Wagner and …

Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)

… ( Musical notation included). “Recent research with Gypsy musicians from Transylvania (Romania) has shown that these musicians had performed a specific repertoire for Hungarian …

Bulgar (LKT)

… with north Bulgaria on the part of Bessarabian Gypsy musicians. A favorite among Jews and non-Jews throughout …

Doyne (LKT)

… rather than dancing, doinas often serve to showcase a musician’s virtuosity and expressiveness, and … table during a wedding or other celebration, doinas allow a musician to display virtuosity and expressiveness through … p. 58 . ( Recording references included). “Jewish weddings musicians played the doina as a table song.” …

Taksim (LKT)

… modal patterns, seems to have been developed by Jewish musicians from the instrumental preludes to the non-Jewish …