בשוק | Ba-shuk | In The Market (1912)

Artist: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938)

Lyrics: From "Ben-Ami" (A)

Tune: Folk Tune (Jewish)

This song was published in Mikraot Le-Talmidim Be-vet Ha-sefer

U'be-vet Ha-av [Reader for Pupils in School and at Home], edited by Ben-Ami

(Odessa, 1905: p. 5).

“Ba-shuk” depicts children playing as soldiers with toys.

Idelsohn designated this melody as a “Polish” in his Table of Contents in Sefer Ha-Shirim (the term he used for songs of Yiddish origin). It might be based on a Yiddish folksong.

The melody is modal, the first part centering around A and the second centering around D.

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