Klezmer
Subtitle: music, history and memory
By: Walter Zev Feldman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780190244514
Subjects: Klezmer music; History and criticism; Music; Jews
Description: 'Klezmer' is a comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music - the music of Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Author Walter Zev Feldman includes major written sources, as well as interviews with European-born klezmorim, conducted over a period of more than thirty years. Including musical analysis, Feldman draws upon the foundational collections of the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods, plus rare klezmer and cantorial manuscripts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-403) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. The klezmer profession: social and artistic function. The music of the klezmer within East Ashkenazic music; title: What's in a name?: the word klezmer and Jewish professional musicians; title: The klezmer ensemble; title: The role of Russia in the study of klezmer music; title: The Jewish wedding and its musical repertoire; title: East European Jewish dance; title: Part 2. Genre and style in klezmer music. The genres and repertoires of klezmer music; title: Moralishe niggunim: the musical genres of the wedding; title: Rhythmic melody among the Ashkenazim: nign and zmires; title: Old European components in the core repertoire; title: The sher: history and choreography; title: North and South in lezmer music: Northern redl and Southern freylekhs; title: Skotshne and freylekhs; title: The khosidl at the interface of mystical and secular expression; title: The bulgar: a transnational klezmer dance genre; title: Postlude: a lezmer legacy; title: Appendix 1: Overview of modal usage in klezmer music.