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The music is the traditional Jewish Klezmer music originated in Eastern Europe in recent centuries. In fact, the term Klezmer is a Yiddish word that is a contraction of two Hebrew words, "KLI" and "zemer". The meaning of KLI is instrument, tool, while zemer definition air, melody, vocals.
So the Klezmer is the instrument of the song, the voice of the vessel. At the origin, the word was used for itinerant klezmer musicians Jewish certified (the plural is "klezmorim") who played at weddings and parties, traveling from village to village. The Jewish folk had many cultural and geographical influences. Although essentially an Ashkenazi music the influence of the Oriental, Greek, Turkish, Jewish and non-Jewish communities living in the Ottoman Empire was not negligible.
Wherever they were, the musicians took the music of people around them, The Gypsies, Romanian, Ukrainian, Moldavian, Lithuanian, Polish and many others. But despite or perhaps because of all the outside influences the Klezmer held its particularity, its characteristics and its unmistakable sound. At the beginning of the 20th century, this music style indexes as Jewish music, Yiddish folk music or even as "Bulgarian", but gradually the word began to refer to the klezmer style and repertoire.
Probably Beregowsky Moshe, a Russian-Jewish ethnomusicologist used for the first term as Klezmer music performed by the Klezmorim. In the seventies, while the Klezmer revival occurred, the word was finally adopted as the general term for the musicians and the music style.
Hence, while the music itself is a few centuries old, the word Klezmer is a kind of neologism. In fact, the juxtaposition of music and klezmer is a tautology, a redundancy. Although the Klezmer music is a secular, are the roots of religious, liturgical. The fact is that world and in every culture, music has always mystical or religious origin. It is a way to ceremonies or rituals to guide, to reach a state of trance and divine approach.
Klezmer is no exception, the psalms of King David in the Bible may be the first appearance of structured music. The Klezmer also the intonation and the expression of the cantor in the synagogue. The Klezmer is not playing, but he sings with his instrument, so the first violin and the clarinet, the instrument of love of Klezmer, because they are very close to the human voice.
The Art of Klezmer is an art of interpretation, many players play the same melody, same melody, same Nigun (Nigun in Yiddish: a wordless melody), but will always sound different, because each musician is expressing his deep emotions and revealing his own soul. Giora Feidman, the great Klezmer clarinet player called this "the inner voice ". Perhaps the best Klezmer is the musical expression to show off emotions, feelings, sensitivity. It is joy, may cry, it can burst out laughing out and burst into tears.
Despite this ambivalence, there is always a message of hope.
About the Author:
Arik Nitsan is a clarinetist who is specialized in Klezmer and world music. For more resources on clarinet and Klezmer, visit his website :
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Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Insight Into Klezmer Music
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