 The Ethnic Clarinet
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Author: clarinetmama
Date: 2003-08-11 03:58
I was wondering if any of you have found any klezmer music that is around a grade 4. So much of the klezmer I have been looking at had been extremely simple. My teacher and I are looking to do some duets and I fear we (especially he) will find the music I have picked up too easy.
Thanks,
Jean
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2003-08-12 03:05
It won't be too easy if you play it right, no matter what the "grade" or whatever of it is!
Sorry if folk music is not technical enough for you... that is not the idea of folk music. I myself am a poor ear player, but this is music you need to get recordings of and listen to, just to hear how it should be done when you read it.
Still, if you want difficulty, go to http://www.pixton.org and purchase his Pinewoods Collection of International Folk Tunes. There, you will find tunes with lots of difficult to play modal arpeggios and odd meters, some with accompanying parts.
Steve Epstein
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-08-12 11:17
Fascinating. I last heard of Mr. Pixton perhaps 15 years ago as a harpsichord maker.
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Author: Benni
Date: 2003-08-13 03:39
The book of Klezmer duets put together by Mike Curtis covers a wide range of difficultly levels. There's a piece in there that literally changes time signature every measure for quite a bit of the tune (not exactly easy, in my opinion), plus Klezmer is supposed to be ornamented (hence something may be written out in a more simple form than it would typically be played), as explained in the guide Ralph pointed out a little bit ago in this post: http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=2&i=650&t=649#reply_650
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2003-08-13 06:23
Yes. Apparently, he was a child (and adult) prodigy who burned out on the harpsichord, went to Romania, heard gypsy music, and took up the accordion.
I got to play a couple of times with him recently. At NEFFA (New England Folk Festival Association) for Russian couple dances, and in the Philadelphia area, for an English and Scottish country dance ball. He is a whiz at classical improvisation on the piano (can make any tune sound like Beethoven) and I think he must know by ear every folk tune of every culture that's ever been played on the accordion.
Steve Epstein
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Author: Jimmy
Date: 2004-01-05 02:02
There is a book of klezmer duets called "ten klezmer duos" and I have no idea who it is buy but it is great and you can find it pritty easily on the web. Also, Klezmer music is not what is on the written page it is the endless posibilities of improvisation that make it increadible. that is where the difficulty is.
Jimmy
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Author: buedsma
Date: 2004-01-05 09:50
see also for free sheet music :
http://www.bueds.be/webmuziek
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