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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