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Turkish $530.52 Turkish is spoken by about fifty million people in Turkey and is the coofficial language of Cyprus. Whilst Turkish has a number of properties that are similar to those of other Turkic languages, it has distinct and interesting characteristics which are given full coverage in this book. Jaklin Kornfilt provides a wealth of examples drawn from different levels of vocabulary: contemporary and old, official and colloquial. They are accompanied by a detailed grammatical analysis and English translation. Author: Kornfilt, Jacklin/ Kornfilt, Jaklin/ Kornfilt Jaklin Series Title: Descriptive Grammars Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 608 Publication Date: 1997/09/29 Language: English Dimensions: 9.58 x 6.30 x 1.99 inches

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How To Define The Klezmer Music

Trying to give a extensive definition of the klezmer is quite a difficult task. Originally, this is the music of the Jewish communities who lived in Eastern Europe a few centuries ago. It is a buoyant dance music meant to go along with the events of the Jewish social life like weddings and holidays.

Klezmer is a music capable of expressing and embracing the human passions and feelings, from blessedness to unhappiness, from laugh to teardrops. In truth the word klezmer is the collocation of two hebrew words, kli and zemer which mean respectively instrument and song, klezmer is therefore word for word the instrument of the song, the vessel of the voice.

Klezmer was played by traveling musicians strolling from Shtetl to Shtetl (the Shtetl is the Jewish village), trying to earn a living performing their craft. There were many music genres which influenced klezmer, such as the Hazanut (synagogue chanting), reproducing the bending of the human voice, by the hasidic nigunim (wordless tunes), popular dances, folk songs, or solemn hymns before prayers.

Now and then the klezmorim (plural of klezmer which means Klezmer musicians) were invited by non-Jewish local nobles who asked them to play contemporary popular tunes. Therefore the klezmer musicians played the local repertoire such as Hungarian, Bulgarian, Bessarabian, Romanian, Moldavian, Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish...as well as classical and of course Gipsy

The klezmer was thus inspired by the non-Jewish traditions and cultures, but on the other end the local musicians of each region and country were in their turn influenced by the klezmer.

The klezmer was brought to Western Europe and to North-America by the immigrants who escaped the oppressions and the pogroms at the end of the 19th century. The beginning of the 20th century  was a flourishing period for  the Yiddish culture and klezmer music thanks to such clarinet musicians as Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein.

From the thirties until the seventies, the klezmer was out of the limelights. The reasons why klezmer sink into oblivion were multiple. The main reasons were WW2 and the holocaust, six millions Jewish were murdered, then the emergence of new styles of music, jazz, rock-and-roll, much more attractive for the young people in search of new ways of expression, and paradoxically when the new State of Israel was created in 1948, the klezmer was put aside because the people wanted to revoke anything evocative of the holocaust. It is only in the seventies that some precursor musicians like Andy Statman, Henry Sapoznik, Zev Feldman in the U.S.A. and Giora Feidman in the European continent, started what is called the "klezmer rebirth".

There was a genuine demand of the young generation who did not know the war and the Shoah to search after their tradition and heritage. Since then, the popularity of klezmer music is continually prospering and it is loved and appreciated by Jewish and non-Jewish people in all part of our global world

About the Author

Arik Nitsan is a clarinet klezmer musician. As a webmaster he is dedicated to share his passion for the klezmer via the clarinet klezmer resource online

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