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Shemonah-esreh tants (LKT)
… prayer... The entire prayer was performed in mimicry and in rhythm.” [Brisk, Lithuania, pre-World War II]. Fridhaber …
Sher
… -- along with the sherele -- scissors) tends to a more calm rhythm and to graceful expression. The klezmorim knew well … titled ‘shers; were usually medleys of many short tunes. Rhythmically they were performed like freylakhs.” Phillips … because of the clapping accompaniment which forms a counter-rhythm. This line influences the rhythm. Also interesting is …
Sirba
… triplet motion in the melody performed against a brisk 2/4 rhythm, Jewish sirbas -- especially outside Romania -- do … dance tune typified by triplets in the melody over a 2/4 rhythm.” Alpert 1996b, p. 59 . “The transitional or … differences, both the sirba and the bulgareasca were rhythmically differentiated from the core klezmer dance …
Skotshne/Skochne
… the Slavs. He idealizes, as it were, the forms of the Czech rhythm, giving us non-pictorial dances in which rhythm and form are decisive....There are ‘Furiants’, …
Terkish (LKT)
… Tantz...is based on the 1929 accordion solo in terkishe rhythm by Mishka Tsiganoff...(What has been referred to as terkishe rhythm is the same as the Greek sirto dance rhythm.).” Phillips 1996a, p. 19 . (Musical notation and …
Tsepler-tants (LKT)
… springs up in the dance, under the influence of the rhythmic dance-melody? The answer is -- a spontaneous …
Vals (LKT)
… quadrille, the waltz words were sung which went with the rhythms... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite …
The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition
… are based on a solo mawal , a musical improvisation in free rhythm, as expressed through the soloist’s personal …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… the second one is simpler in regards to contour as well as rhythm. Except for the leap of a fourth in the opening … progression. Additionally, except for the cadences, the rhythm of the melodies progresses in eighth notes. The … has a simple melodic structure in a major key with a steady rhythm progression of eighth notes, the second version’s …
Karev Yom
… first stanza, not to the last one (‘Karev yom’) and it is a rhythmical rendition of the traditional Ashkenazi nussah for … a non-Hassidic Ashkenazi tradition that frowns upon rhythmic melodies of the kind of the “common” ‘Karev yom’? …