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The absolutely complete klezmer songbook
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- Creator
- editor, Yale Strom
- Included Titles
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- The absolutely complete introduction to klezmer music
- Introduction to klezmer music
- Format
- Music Scores; Sound Recordings
- Languages
- Yiddish, Hebrew
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Transcontinental Music Publications, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 score (xlii, 420 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 0807409472, 9780807409473
- OCLC
- ocm76895518
- Primarily instrumental music; a few selections with lyrics.
- Unacc. melodies, with chord symbols.
- Accompanying CD ("The absolutely complete introduction to klezmer music") presents 36 selections performed by Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi (Yale Strom, violin ; Norbert Stachel, clarinet ; Peter Stan, accordion ; Jim Whitney, bass); track listing on p. 418-420.
- Includes introduction, glossary, and index.
- In part with Yiddish or Hebrew words, also printed separately with English translations.
- Before the khupe -- Processional and recessional -- Bulgars -- Freylekhs -- Horas, londres, volekhs, and zhoks -- Skotshnes -- Khosedls -- Shers -- Nigunim -- Tish-nigunim -- Waltzes -- Display melodies : doynes and others -- In-laws dances -- Hopkes, mitsve tantses, and others -- Slavic, Romanian, and Hungarian dances : polkes, kolomeykes, and others -- Farewell dances : dobridens, dobranotshes, and others -- Gas-nigunim -- Songs in Yiddish -- Pieces for B-flat instruments