- Songs of Eastern European Jews celebrating the joys of the Sabbath. The melodies, often borrowed from folksong, Jewish and non-Jewish, and cast in simple meter, date from roughly 1600–1850, while the poems are much older, from the ninth to 17th centuries of various provenance.See also Piyyut.
Historical dictionary of sacred music. Joseph P. Swain. 2006.
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