As well as heterophony, there are some specific types of improvisation in klezmer: 1. The kale-bazetsn (seating of the bride) ceremony....

Original meaning: 'kle' and 'zemer', two words in Yiddish & Hebrew, make up klezmer, meaning vessel of song = musical instrument. A...

Yiddish is the language that klezmer musicians would have spoken. It started around the 1100s and is mainly early German, with some...