atw: Re: OT: Musical ignorance

Klezmer is a style of music originating in eastern Europe.
Time signature is 2/4 with the emphasis on the 2nd beat (though of course it 
may be written as 4/4 if so, then the emphasis is on the 3rd beat)
Ska music uses the same beat, but it's a variation on the feel.
Lyrics are likely to be in Yiddish, but not necessarily.
Arguably, Zorba the Greek is similar to Klezmer, also Midnight in Moscow.  
Hava Nagila is another.  The Andrews sisters song "Bah  Meer bis Du shein" 
are also examples (I bet I have spelt that wrong!).  However, this song is 
perhaps watered down from the original style, in which the off beat is more 
heavily accented.
A feature of this music is that it may start slow, with each verse slightly 
faster than the last arriving at a frantic pace by the end of the song.
Another feature is the tendency to have sudden a heavily emphatic pause on a 
4th minor chord (or a chord one semitone up)  at the end of a verse leading 
to the start of a new round.
Also the melodic lines often have middle eastern sounding twirls.
The principle of Klezmer is that it is a living art, and new compositions 
should be continually written.  Cat Empire have some Klezmer on their album.
I have played this music in Melbourne, with a Klezmer saxophonist.
Melbourne has some very good Klezmer bands.  A violin works well with it 
also.  (and Tuba for bass)



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>From: "Allan Charlton" <Allan.Charlton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>Subject: atw: OT: Musical ignorance
>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:13:49 +1000
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>Bill Parker's .sig line includes the following:
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> > Dr Bill Parker
> > Scholar and sometime klezmer clarinetist
>
>What's a klezmer clarinetist?
>I'm guessing that it's someone who plays a klezmer clarinet, and
>although I have held a clarinet in my hands, I have no idea what a
>klezmer is.  Is it a playing style, perhaps?
>
>Bill?
>
>Allan
>(who is something of a musical ignoramus)
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