Klezmer
Klezmer is a kind of music. It was made by the Jews of Eastern Europe, and it is a mix of Russian, Greek and Romanian folk music, based on and Jewish prayer music.
In old times, it was played during Jewish weddings and religious festivals, and it was made for dancing. The most common klezmer instruments are the clarinet and the violin, because they are the best to play in the sad klezmer style.
Klezmer Media
Jewish musicians of Rohatyn (west Ukraine)
C Jewish scale
Ukrainian Dorian mode on C.
Mixolydian mode on C.
Aeolian mode on C.
Medieval Jewish wedding procession (date unknown)
Portrait of Pedotser (A. M. Kholodenko), nineteenth century klezmer virtuoso
Klezmer musicians at a wedding, Ukraine, ca. 1925
Max Leibowitz orchestra from 1921
Elane Hoffman Watts, klezmer drummer, in 2007
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