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Gas-nign (LKT)
… klezmorim know many pieces: dance, instrumental works played at the table, street tunes (accompanying the march to … tune.’ This is what the klezmorim called the pieces they played on the street while accompanying guests home at night … is the triple meter. It is not known how this tradition of playing the gas-nign in triple meter began. It is also not …
Hora (LKT)
… Recording references included). “The hora Leon [Schwartz] plays [here] is a version of one of the most common … to read in 3/4...The backup rhythm is distinguished by playing on the first and third beats, omitting the second - … intrinsic to the hora dance form. It was the kind of tune played to accompany the bridal part home...[H. Kandel, …
Hopke (LKT)
… a rubel for me/into kopeks,/I am paying the klezmer ,/he’s playing hopkes for me.” [Tshimerovits, Podalia, pre-World … pp. 1265-66 . “Alongside of the kozachok the klezmers aso played the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into … no. 79).” Vinaver 1985, pp. 191-92 . “During the meal they played and danced, particularly interesting are the last …
Bessie Schonberg
… choreographers through her connection to the Neighborhood Playhouse. Unfortunately, a knee injury in 1931 prematurely …
Hopak (LKT)
… pp. 129-130 . “Alongside of the kozachok the klezmers aso played the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into …
Beroyges-tants
… in a slow circle dancing around them, when the ‘klezmorim’ play the traditional folk song for this scene, ‘Lomir zikh … 1975, pp. 29-30 . “One of the most beautiful dances on display during this event is no doubt the ‘techiat ha-metim’ … “The young people danced until daybreak...The klezmorim played all kinds of melodies for the dances...Blimtske the …
Mekhutenim-tants
… ... The Jewish source that the author relies upon, [is] the playing of ‘two mekhutonim dances,’ before and after the …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… from another people. Thus, a polonaise might always be played for a košer -tanc . Many klezmorim, when we asked them for such a dance, played Aginski’s popular polonaise ‘Les adieux à la … Saturday night after Zemirot. How beautifully the town band played freilachs , and the ‘Kosher Dance!’” [Zhagare, …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… dance with her. When his oration is done, the klezmorim play a vivat ...” [Staro-Konstantin, Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. … Fridkin 1925, pp. 44-7 . “[After the meal,] the musicians played many different types of merry melodies and Reb Simkhe … [and at the dance’s end] he gave a cry... [and] the klezmer played the ‘mitsve-tentsl’ -- the bridegrooms grabbed me …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… for Jewish Folk Music is really about the strange interplay between Russian antisemitism and philosemitism, which … increasingly that the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires played decisive roles in shaping the nationalist visions of … and revolutionary turned would-be composer, Balakirev displayed no interest in his politics or his music. All he …