With world music soaring to new heights in popularity, Transcontinental Music Publications brings traditional klezmer music from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to today's urban and suburban music aficionados with a new songbook and CD set. Featuring complete melody lines and chords for more than 300 songs, The Absolutely Complete Klezmer Songbook and CD enables even amateur musicians to arrange and perform authentic klezmer music either solo or in a band formation.
Edited by Yale Strom -- a leading ethnomusicologist who spent years gathering authentic klezmer tunes from village musicians throughout Eastern Europe -- this songbook includes many melodies never before published. The book also features historical photos from the shtetls of Eastern Europe, along with informative cultural and historical background notes on the cultures that created klezmer.
The Absolutely Complete Klezmer Songbook and CD is available as a paperback + CD set, and retails for $49.95. It can be ordered by contacting Transcontinental Music Publications toll-free at 888.489.8242, tmp@urj.org, or by visiting the Transcontinental Music site at www.TranscontinentalMusic.com.
Transcontinental Music Publications is the music-publishing arm of the Union for Reform Judaism (formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations). The Union is the central body of the Reform Movement in North America, and unites more than 1.5 million Reform Jews in 900 congregations across the United States and Canada. The Union's programs and services include music and book publishing, adult education opportunities, outreach to unaffiliated and intermarried Jews, and the Religious Action Center in Washington, DC.
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