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Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… we dedicate the Song of the Month to a very popular Eastern European Ashkenazi melody that, in the early 1920s, was set … became one of the canonical children songs for Purim in Europe and in the Jewish settlement in Palestine/Israel … children. As a most widely recognized melody in the Eastern European Jewish world, the melody of “ H ag Purim” was …
Polka
… “There are also ‘cosmopolitan repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin’ such as lances, pa de span, padekater, … mazurkas (both in 3/4 meter), polkas (2/4), tangos (4/4) European military marches (2/4 and 6/8), and popular pieces …
Pas de quatre (LKT)
… “There are also ‘cosmopolitan repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin’ such as lances, pa de span, padekater, …
Pas d’espagne (LKT)
… “There are also ‘cosmopolitan repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin’ such as lances, pa de span, padekater, …
Quadrille (LKT)
… “There are also ‘cosmopolitan repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin such as lances, pa de span, padekater, … words were sung which went with the rhythms... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest to an …
Lanse (LKT)
… “There are also ‘cosmopolitan repertoire’ couple dances of Western and Central European origin’ such as lances, pa de span, padekater, …
Zhok (LKT)
… notation included). “In many communities in Eastern Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, Jewish … not yet klezmer music. It was Roumanian or Bessarabian...In western Moldavia the term [hora] can also refer to the zhok …
Hora (LKT)
… triple-meter hora, the primary form of the genre among East European Jews, is common in northeastern Romania and among … and Hasidic communities. In a much wider area of Eastern Europe, horas were frequently used as processional tunes at … meaning is a binary rhythmic form at a moderate tempo. In western Moldavia the term can also refer to the zhok form. …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… about its performance in Zionist assemblies throughout Europe since at least 1894 as well as among the Jewish … in an article on the Zionist movement in Stryj/Stryi (in Western Ukraine). [7] More interesting however is the … pattern (V-I). In short, this is a quintessential European folk melody of the type that can be found in many …
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
… faiths by the Catholic Church were common throughout Europe. Among the refugees were wealthy Spanish and … (Nusah) The synagogue conducts prayers according to the Western European Sephardic tradition, with minimal, late … style of this synagogue is the result of a mixture of Western and Eastern elements. A similar fusion is found in …