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Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual commandment/good … to toss in [contributions] to the collection box. After the wedding the klezmorim used to divide among themselves the … droshe-geshank-oyfshpiln and other entertainment songs...” Fater 1985, pp. 60-61 . “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve …
Semele (LKT)
… information on this dance. There he cites all the folk songs that mention the semene/semele dance. Cahan introduces … itself was forgotten, but Zunser, who sang his songs for wedding guests, would certainly not have needed to mention a … it may be, that people did not want to let it into a proper wedding. We find a small hint about the ‘semele’ in an …
Doyne (LKT)
… Often performed for guests at the banquet table during a wedding or other celebration, doinas allow a musician to … 1996b, p. 58 . ( Recording references included). “Jewish weddings musicians played the doina as a table song.” … is one of the richests and most beautiful of Yiddish folk songs. A certain non-Jewish influence heard in the melody is …
Volekh (LKT)
… Often performed for guests at the banquet table during a wedding or other celebration, doinas allow a musician to … . (Musical notation included). “Some southern hassidic songs show the influence of the Romanians; these songs are … in pastoral fashion. Numerous Hassidic dance melodies and weddings tunes are in Walachish style: the melody is left to …
Pastukhel (LKT)
… 1960, p. 192 . “[America is] a strange land with strange weddings... [where] a wedding-feast [happens] without a ‘volekhl,’ or a … is one of the richest and most beautiful of Yiddish folk songs. A certain non-Jewish influence heard in the melody is …
Kozatshok (LKT)
… widespread dance tune kozačok ) and a great number of folk songs sung to the melodies of popular Ukrainian songs.” … . “Jewish musicians used to play frequently at non-Jewish weddings and festivities where they undoubtedly played … same way they brought their Ukrainian repertoire to Jewish weddings (e.g. kozačkes , skočnas ). Beregovski 1935 [= …
Quadrille (LKT)
… quadrille with him in the middle, just as at a wedding in a little Jewish town.” [Nikolayev, Kherson … dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, … Palestine, c. 1910s]. Fridhaber 1992, p. 398 . “[At weddings] Hersh the Klezmer with his band of his three …
Polka
… dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, … 1959, pp. 164, 166-67, 169, n. 58 . “After the wedding-feast they began to dance. The dances were varied …
Polonaise
… dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing songs, but also to the polonaise, quadrille, waltz, … form of the old ‘sher’ or ‘shir’ which used to be danced at weddings by two rows facing each other. While singing the … are part of a longer song actually sung by grown-ups at weddings.” Pipe 1971b, p. 571. “The dance-song is a …
Sher
… area), which used to play for Ukrainian artisans...at their weddings and celebrations, to which they invited Jewish … We copied out a whole series of descriptions of Jewish weddings, among them some which were very precise, with many … references, the šer is also mentioned very rarely in folk songs. These folk songs are all from the Ukraine (cf. Cahan …