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- Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.
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Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions.
Klezmer is a kind of music. It was made by the Jews of Eastern Europe, and it is a mix of Russian, Greek and Romanian folk music, based on Jewish prayer music. In old times, it was played during Jewish weddings and religious festivals, and it was made for dancing.
About. The word klezmer itself can be divided into two Yiddish words, ‘klei’ (meaning vessel) and ‘zimmer’ (meaning song). Although we know this music as ‘klezmer’, originally the term was used to describe the musician playing the music rather than the genre itself – “play that music, Klezmer!” or Shpiel Klezmer Shpiel.
Klezmer as we now know it was originally just referred to as Jewish music and was played by Jewish musicians in Eastern Europe for several hundred years prior to the Second World War. After the...
How klezmer music got its start is made more mysterious by the history of the word klezmer. There is a great deal of confusion about when the term (a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew kĕlēy zemer , meaning “tools of the music”) began to denote the Jewish musician and a specific type of music rather than the instrument being played.
Feb 27, 2017 · By Benjamin Ivry February 27, 2017. Klezmer, the Eastern European musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews, is constantly evolving. Played by musicians called klezmorim at weddings and other ...
Etymology. The word “klezmer” comes from Hebrew “kli zemer” which means “instrument of the singing”. It is in a manuscript from the XVIth century kept in Trinity College of Cambridge, that “klezmer” designated the musician and no longer the instrument [2]. The word is pejorative: in slang, it means a thief, a criminal.
