Combocom: Klezmer

12 Klezmer arrangements for flexible instrumentation: melody, accompanying voice, guitar chords, bass voice

Unbroken is the excitement and fascination associated with Klezmer, the secular music of Eastern European Jews. This edition offers all the material for authentic performances of well-known and new pieces.

The 12 pieces are arranged for 'open instrumentation', i.e. one can instrument according to one's own taste when playing, octave voices , omit voices or improvise one's own ideas to them. They allow an insight into the typical happy-painful melody and harmony of Yiddish music, which arose from a mixture of Jewish, Slavic, Romanian and German stylistic elements and is currently experiencing a rebirth in the folklore scene.

The editor
Henner Diederich teaches folklore playing and arranging at the Cologne University of Music and has made a name for himself especially in the field of klezmer music with numerous publications.