 The Ethnic Clarinet
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Author: samacro
Date: 2003-07-23 14:46
Ever since seeing a Klezmer concert several months ago at a clarinet festival, I've been interested in trying my hand at it. Anyone know of some good starting materials - books, etc?
Post Edited (2003-07-23 14:50)
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-07-23 20:09
Yea verily you tread where others have gone before you. There are other threads on this board this information.
Try "Compleat Klezmer" by Henry Sapoznik (Tara Publications - http://www.tara.com.) Get the accompanying audio CD, which has the source archival recordings for the transcribed tunes.
Ralph
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Author: Gene K
Date: 2003-07-24 01:58
In addition to the suggestions you've already received, I would recommend collections published from the repertoire of Giora Feidman, also available from Tara Music. Kammen Dance Folios Nos. 1 & 9 provide other good source material (also available from Tara.) Check out Ari Davidow's website The Klezmer Shack (get address from Google) for great Klez info.
Enjoy! Gene
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Author: ChrisC
Date: 2003-07-24 02:24
I'm surprised to see so much emphasis placed upon ready-made transcriptions. It's very hard for me to imagine klezmer written out in standard notation--or any kind of notation, really, although I am aware that many bands do in fact take this approach. I've never been able to successfully notate any of the klezmer tunes that I play, and I think they would lose a great deal in translation. Certainly, the advice to purchase the accompanying CD to the Sapoznik book is quite sound; however, I very much recommend that you try your hand at learning the music solely by ear.
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Author: ginny
Date: 2003-08-01 16:53
I use the Incredible Slower Downer, a shareware program that allows me to change the speed of a CD or wave file to transcribe. I can also tweek the pitch or isolate a single note using.
I usually know the piece pretty well after I write it down for everyone else.
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Author: ChrisC
Date: 2003-08-02 17:43
I use something similar called Transcribe! It halves (and even quarters!) the speed wthout changing its pitch and allows you to loop fragments of a piece of music repeatedly, which is useful for especially difficult passagese.
The thing is, I tend to forget that I'm transcribing at half speed and when I realize just how fast the Bulgarian tunes I'm working on at the moment really are, It can be a rude awakening.
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Author: wyatt
Date: 2003-08-04 17:57
try East Klexmer by Giora Feidman
Klexmers--arranged by Poen Wolfgram
Avrahm Galper--clarinet series.
bob gardner}ÜJ
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