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Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… similar serial patterns of question and answer counting songs in other traditions, such as Muslim, Latin, German, … the JMRC, no. 169, pp. 397-402). This version has become a popular song among Yiddish and klezmer musicians over the … song: “Among children, the number songs were particularly popular, and their counting of a particular number of things …
Vals (LKT)
… of course polkas and mazurkas and waltzes... [which were popular] in the ‘30s.” [Warsaw, Poland, 1930s]. Alpert … [= Beregovski/Slobin 1982, p. 533] . “The waltz was also popular among Jews and was danced exclusively at weddings.” … dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise , quadrille , waltz , …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… The prayer melodies were usually adaptations of popular Arabic and Turkish songs. The old style Ottoman-Jewish musical tradition was … said, “entered hearts and souls” and became revered and popular among the Sephardic and Eastern Jews in Jerusalem. …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… melody. 'A Gneyve' is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that include songs that bemoan the troubles of the poor, as well as the … female performers to sing them on the stage. She was widely popular in Europe and later in the United States, where she …
Karev Yom
… commercial recordings of Israeli and other Jewish folksongs made for the international market after World War II. … of the duos and trios of Israeli singers that became so popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s, especially the … modernized Haggadot of several kibbutzim. Several Israeli popular artists, such as Yaffa Yarkoni and Shuli Natan, …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… scholars cited two nineteenth-century patriotic German songs, certainly known to German-speaking Jews, as a … feature in the gestation of the Zionist anthem and its popular reception. Music In 1884, Imber read his poem … ‘ Luncile s-au deştepta ’) that continues to be quite popular in Rumanian and Moldavian schools to this day. [13] …
Vivat
… 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, p. 45-47. “...some ‘Dorian’ songs do bear the imprint of Moldavian influence. We are thinking of songs in which the intonations of Moldavian dances can be … reproduce exactly the beginning of the second figure of the popular Moldavian dance ‘Vivat’...” Goldin 1989, pp. 36-37 . …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… brider' from the Ruth Rubin's archival collection, "Folksongs and Folklore 1948-1967 – Holidays' Songs – Purim." Recorded in New York City, 1956, from Mary … tune (Allegretto) of the widespread Purim song that became popular following the zamelbukh , the melody in Goldfaden’s …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… her unique, wide-ranging style, is in fact a suite of Purim songs. It opens with ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider,’ which eventually becomes a refrain used between the other songs of the suite. Amid these repetitions of ‘Haint Iz … add new information to what we wrote previously about the popular Hassidic niggun used as a setting for Kipnis' …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… … In 1926, in “New Palestinean [sic] Folk Songs” – one of the earliest Zionist songbooks published in … there are many such commonplace songs. Some of them became popular in one social circle or another and later entered … (1931) and the “Songs of Zion” (1942)). It appears in popular collections of Israeli songs produced in America, …