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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"klezmer"”.
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To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival
Klezmer, a type of Eastern European Jewish secular music brought to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century, originally functioned as accompaniment to Jewish wedding ritual celebrations. In the late 1970s, a group of primarily Jewish musicians sought inspiration for a renewal of …
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The real deal: professional klezmer musicians on a London world music scene
… begun their foray into these diverse styles with klezmer and it is this style that I explore most with relation to the Real Deal. As klezmer is a Jewish music style not played, or even enjoyed, by all Jews, this makes notions of the Real Deal much more ambiguous. This thesis examines the movable …
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The influence of klezmer on twentieth-century solo and chamber concert music for clarinet: with three recitals of selected works of Manevich, Debussy, Horovitz, Milhaud, Martino, Mozart and others.
… of the Eastern European Jews is known today as klezmer. Klezmer was the traditional instrumental celebratory music of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews who eventually populated the Pale of Settlement, which encompassed modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Romania. Due to the rise of …
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The art of the klezmer: improvisation and ornamentation in the commercial recordings of New York clarinettists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras 1922-1929
… tradition with roots in medieval Germany, klezmer music had developed in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe during the course of several centuries and was brought to North America by immigrants beginning in the late nineteenth century. European klezmorim had formed a socio-economic …
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Inspirations and Influences: Popular Composition Trends in the Contemporary Clarinet Repertoire (1996-2010)
… that integrate the Jewish folk music style of Klezmer; the second consists of programmatic works that all seek to represent a specific source of inspiration; and the third showcases works that integrate a variety of styles of American popular music. The works performed and discussed in this …
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Sea-Crosser
… style, featuring large choral sections and Klezmer themes. It is a great honor to set my great-great-grandfather’s story to music, and I hope the composition conveys much of the emotion and sentiment from his tumultuous journey and incredible life story.
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Tradition is Dead, Long Live Tradition: Critical Approaches to Postvernacular Yiddish Culture
… cultural scene against the backdrop of the klezmer revival. Chapter Two focuses on the cohort of artists interviewed for this study, showing how they transform tradition through cultural practice, put tradition to work in their activism, and build community and social infrastructure around a …