 The Ethnic Clarinet
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Author: christopher white
Date: 2002-06-18 01:06
my name is chris and i'm a clarinetist living in oakland ca. i most often play with an accordionist and a violinist. we've been transcribing music from recordings--klezmer, balkan, french a few tangos this and that--but the process is slow. We found the Kammen folios which we enjoy and are wondering if there is more music written for ensemble. Any other suggestions for coming up with new music would be appreciated. We're not strictly interested in klezmer, but tend to like music written for dancing.
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2002-06-18 02:59
You want to get "The Pinewoods Collection" by Tom Pixton, an accordionist whom I think knows every folk tune known to personkind, and has transcribed about 400 of them. I can't recall the URL - it's very long - I believe I posted it on this board in response to a similar query - there's only a few pages on this board, won't be too hard to find. If you can't find it, put Flying Tomatoes (name of his Rumanian band), From Rags to Racenitzas (sp?) (the name of a CD of his), or his own name into a search engine, then find his website and look under his publications. Or go to http://www.neffa.org/~neffa, click on performers - general, check under the P's.
Another good book is A Little Couple-DanceMusick, by Peter Barnes, also a long URL I don't remember but may have previously posted here. You really need to go to the Neffa website to find him, because this book title won't draw hits and there are too many other more notable Peter Barnes than this one. This book has lots of schottisches, waltzes, mazurkas, hambos, polkas, polskas, French tangos, etc.
Now these are just tunebooks, concert pitch only, but they do have "suggested" chords, so you can make up harmonies.
Your admission of difficulty transcribing from recordings and resorting to the printed page makes me feel good - I'm terrible at playing by ear, would rather read, so much frowned upon by folk musicians:-)
Clarinet and accordion - such a heavenly combination. Have you ever thought of doing K622 on a C-clarinet with accordion, rather than piano accompaniment?
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2002-06-18 03:13
Oh, more tunebooks for dancing, searchable from NEFFA links:
New England Fiddlers Repertoire (warning - no chords), The Portland Collection, Fifer's Delight, Fifer's Delightful Companion (harmonies!!), Balance and Swing, Swing the Next. These are all jigs and reels from USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, used for contra and old time square dancing.
Fiddler's Fake Book. Available in any music store. Lots of tunes, often not the way they're really played, but lots of tunes. A large selection of rags among the reels and jigs.
Steal 'em off the web from John Chamber's tune search.
All of the above in concert pitch only, of course, and in fiddle - friendly / Bb - unfriendly keys. Buy a C-clarinet.
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Author: christopher white
Date: 2002-06-19 15:41
Steve, thanks so much for the great tips. I'll be looking for both the Peter Barnes, and the Pinewoods Collections. I know of both Peter and the Flying Tomatoes from when I lived in New England 10yrs ago. What's a K622? A C clarinet sounds like a good idea.
thanks again,
chris
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2002-06-19 16:56
Kirschel #622 is the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, generally played on the A clarinet, with its nice dark tone, as well as favorable transposed key (I believe the concerto is in concert A major). There is either piano or orchestral accompaniment.
So this was a joke you missed:-)
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Author: Karel
Date: 2002-06-21 03:00
I am a 65 yr old learner of the clarinet, and came across Klezmer music. I have bought some sheet music from Luyben Music, and would like to find access to CD recordings e.g. Feidman, mainly to help me in what it should sound like. Can anyone point me to a source please?
Karel.
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Author: christopher white
Date: 2002-06-23 14:36
hi karel, thanks for your reply. where can i find luyben sheet music? you might want to post your question on the main bulletin board so as to generate a number of replies. there's a lot of klezmer music out there on recordings. there's a famous recording and also book i believe called The Complete Klezmer that i'm sure you can find on line. It's all, if i'm correct, recordings of reknowned klezmer musicians playing traditional tunes. Good luck!
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Author: L Skopitz
Date: 2002-07-09 05:31
Kammen folios 1 and 9 are available, but I have also seen violin and bflat copies of the long out of print #5. Sy Kushner has two volumes of the Klezmer Fake Book in c, bflat and I think eflat each of which comes with a cd of pioneer recordings. A klez group out of yale has published a collection in various keys with melody, countermelody, harmony and rythmn lines for several instruments. Try Living Traditions for more info on these items and klez in general- LMS
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Author: Simon
Date: 2002-09-19 04:17
I am nut sure if you like or interested in Macedonian folk music , but if you are visit this page:
http://www.taleognenovski.com.mk/
it is a huge page. This artist has many tapes/cds mainly folk dances and is very well regarded in the Macedonian community and abroad.
All the best and hope I have been of any help.
Simon from
down under
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