https://musictheoryprint.com/genres/yi/ Recent content in YI on Music Theory Print Hugo en https://musictheoryprint.com/genres/yi/yiddish-song/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://musictheoryprint.com/genres/yi/yiddish-song/ <div class="mtp-special-block"> <h2 id="the-yiddish-language-and-song">The Yiddish language and song<a class="anchor" href="#the-yiddish-language-and-song">#</a></h2> <p>From the fourteenth century secular songs were sung in Yiddish, though rabbis of the period directed that sacred songs were only to be sung in Hebrew.</p> </div> <div class="mtp-special-block"> <h2 id="yiddish-folk-songs">Yiddish folk songs<a class="anchor" href="#yiddish-folk-songs">#</a></h2> <p>One of the main genres of Yiddish folk song in Central and Eastern Europe is Klezmer, which was also exported to America and Israel, though Henry Sapoznik (2005) writes &ldquo;Historically, Yiddish song and theater have had a higher visibility than klezmer music in Israel.&rdquo; Generally 17th and 18th century songs and lullabies are anonymous, but the composers of others such as are known; such as &ldquo;On The Hearth&rdquo; by Mark Warshawsky.</p>