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Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… … Background Qad Zawajunī is a form of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities … ceremony as part of the repertoire of Yemenite Jewish women singers. In Yemen, the separation of men and women was … analysis is inspired by Rachel Hoffman's doctorate who, along with Professor Edwin Seroussi, was the last person to …
A Gneyve - A Yiddish Song of Theft and Poverty
… is part of a large repertoire of Yiddish songs addressing the hardships of a poverty ridden life that include … occurs at a rabbi's house. It opens with a refrain disclosing that the rabbi has been robbed, and the stanzas which … to Kremer’s and that Oy Division vocalist Noam Inbar, along with guest singer Avishay Fish, adopt vocal …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… source, and will examine a few versions and adaptions focusing on changes introduced to the text and the music within … hu,” was published in Hebrew (with a few Aramaic words) along with a translation into Yiddish. One defining … in character. They also feature the distinctive phrasing of God dwelling and floating in the heavens and on the …
Sirba
… Polish gorale (highlanders from the mountainous regions along the Slovak border). While Romanian sirbas are … such medleys are described as portraying a sheperd losing a lamb and finding it again.: the melancholic, rubato … alternates triplets with syncopated phrases frequently using eight-note/quarter-note/eighth-note patterns, with …
Sher
… a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and not only to [modern couple dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, … The motivic development of the ‘sher’ (which means -- along with the sherele -- scissors) tends to a more calm …
La Gallarda matadora
… on medieval Romance languages from the Iberian Peninsula along with vocabulary, morphological and phonological … printed and distributed in chapbooks and were sung by male singers. Example 1 - Romance de La Gallarada Matadora sung … southern region of Spain that includes instrumental music, singing and dance. Theories as to how and when flamenco took …
Mekhutenim-tants
… [Yet] a generalization cannot be made from this [single source]... and several sources depict this event of … ... There are even scholars who want to add and classify along with the... ‘beroyges’ dance and ‘sholem’ dance, the …
Beroyges-tants
… for a long time now the folkdance has been accompanied by singing; and not only to [modern couple dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, … ... There are even scholars who want to add and classify along with the... ‘beroyges’ dance and ‘sholem’ dance, the …
Woody Guthrie's Hanukkah Songs
… Hanukkah represent the individual reflections by poets and singers on the holiday's themes and the stories associated … was one of the United States' great and prolific folk singers. Many of his songs dealt with the plight of the … soundscape. The repeating verses and guitar accompaniment, along with the rich orchestration, give the song a circular …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… by the badchon who, in grotesque rhymes and a peculiar singsong, exhorts the bride, reminding her of the solemnity … her parents... and the violin cries and breaks her heart... along with the klezmorim during the ‘baveynen di kale’ the … the badkhn called out names, and the klezmer would play along.” [Vilna, c. 1870s-80s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 874 . …