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Catalog > Books > Klezmer Tunes updated November 19, 2007

Klezmer and Related Music: Books and Other Materials

All prices quoted in US dollars
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Klezmer Books
Other Jewish Music books
Books About Jewish Music
Other Eastern European Materials
Klezmer Books (Instrumental Music)

NOTE: Recommended books for beginning Klezmer players in bold italics

Dance Klezmer Style, arranged by Marvin Rosenberg -- $16.95 -- click here to order
 
Easy to Play Jaffe & Kammen -- $12.95 choose instrument:
Jewish Fiddlers Tunebook (Greenblatt) -- $6.95

Kammen International Dance Folio No 1 or No. 9 -- contact us for availability

Klezmer Arranging & Orchestration by Sokolow -- $22.95

Klezmer Band Folio: spiral bound, 72 pp. -- $34.95
From the repertoire of the Yale Klezmer Band. Transcriptions by Ken Richmond. Standard Bb melody notation with chord symbols, including notes on the tunes. Transcribed in melody & harmony parts for clarinet, sax & trumpet.
Klezmer Collection -- $19.95
for C Instruments (also available in Bb version) - Stacy Phillips, 187 pp, interviews, bibliography. 36 khosidls, 13 horas, 52 freylakhs, 18 miscellaneous tunes. Published December 1996.

Klezmer Plus Folio -- $20.95
Klezmerantics (Milstein) -- $19.95
Passover Klezmerantics -- $19.95
Seder Music for 2 violins, bass, guitar, and voice. 25 pp plus 14 page Bb transcription insert. 15 songs. Notes, translation guide.

Learn to Play Klezmer Music: 80-minute video by Andy Statman -- $29.95 click here to order

Other Jewish Vocal & Instrumental Music

Easy-to-Play Israeli and Jewish Songs for Piano -- $6.95

Flory Jagoda Songbook: Memories of Sarajevo (lyrics in Ladino) -- $24.95

Hebrew Festival Melodies: Easy piano/vocal -- $6.95
Immigrant Songbook (Silverman) -- $29.95
International Jewish Songbook (Pasternak) -- $35.00
Israel Folk Songs & Dances for Accordion -- $5.95 -- click here to order

Israeli & Jewish Song Hits: Easy piano/vocal -- $12.95

Jewish Holiday Songs for Children -- $14.95
Jewish Nostalgia: Easy piano/vocal -- $12.95
Jewish Song Hits Book: Easy piano/vocal -- $12.95

Jewish Theatre Songs (Kammen), Volume I -- $12.95 contact us for availability

Kammen Folio of Favorite Jewish Songs Volume II -- $12.95 contact us for availability

Mir Trogn a Gesang: New Book of Yiddish Songs -- $14.95
Most Popular Jewish Songs -- $12.95
NY Times Great Songs of the Yiddish Theatre -- $16.95
Sephardic-Oriental Songbook (Pasternak) -- $14.95
Simcha Songbook (Pasternak) -- $11.95
Songs of the Jewish People (Silverman) -- $14.95
118 pages, 56 Yiddish songs in transliteration & English translation. Each song accompanied by a B&W vintage photo, drawing, or painting.

Books About Jewish Music

Jewish Music: Its Historical Development (Idelson) -- $16.95
Voices of a People (Ruth Rubin) Scholarly book, some music notation. -- $26.95

Other Eastern European Materials

Best Balalaika Method Yet -- $8.95


Elementary Method for Balalaika -- $9.95

Bulgarian Collection, for C instruments (Geisler) -- $20.00

International Collection, for C instruments (Geisler) -- $24.00

International Fiddlers Tunebook (Greenblatt) -- $13.95

Russian Songbook (Rubin & Stillman) -- $8.95

Village Dance Music Dance Syllabi: 23 European dances (Geisler) $12.95

Yugoslav Collection (Geisler) Dance tunes for all C instruments -- $20.00

All prices quoted in US$ If you don't see it, please ask! We may be able to get it .