(204 results found)
Mazltov (LKT)
… accomapnied by floods of tears and the loud sobbing of the women, especially the bride.” [late nineteenth century]. … of the couple. First they played sad melodies that made the women cry, actually when the women saw the klezmers approaching they began to cry, then …
La Gallarda matadora
… was maintained mostly by oral transmission, primarily by women. The romances, for example, were sung as lullabies and …
Koyletsh-tants (LKT)
… claps their hands.” Fenster 1964, pp. 155-56 . “...the women’s dance (and especially the old women’s dance) before the bride with khales with lit candles … . “When the bride and groom returned from the khupe old women... dance against them with ‘bobe’ [old type of …
Patsh Tants (LKT)
… and Berk 1948, pp. 23-24 . (Musical notation included). “‘Women, clap! Take pleasure that both mothers-in-law are … Tants ’ (‘Clap Dance’). This is performed only by married women in a circle with the bride in the center. The matrons …
Kozatske (LKT)
… came and we were happy and danced a lot, and the young women performed for us the Kavaliere... the men watched and …
Kavalier (LKT)
… came and we were happy and danced a lot, and the young women performed for us the Kavaliere .” Wengeroff 1913, I, …
Shabos-tants (LKT)
… the ‘mitsve-tentsl’ --the bridegrooms grabbed me and the women the bride and they led us out to the small dark room.” …
Dreydl (LKT)
… Simkhes-Torah with the hakafot . When it was announced the women also knew it as a karahod . Reyzen 1945, p. 3 . See …
Karahod (LKT)
… would play a karahod , meaning a dance in which all men and women circled separately in a round... Right in the middle …
Doyne (LKT)
… fluere (sheperd’s pipe) or violin; it is sung by men and women, adults and children. In structure it is divided into …