Klezmer, the secular Jewish music from Eastern Europe, continues to weave its magic spell.<br>
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This volume offers all the material you need for authentic performances of new and familiar pieces. Henner Diederich , a teacher of folk music and arrangement at the Cologne Musikhochschule , has gained a reputation with his  many publications, especially in the  klezmer  field. Here he presents twelve  klezmer  arrangements for variable ensemble:  melody, counter-melody, guitar chords and bass line.<br>
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The twelve pieces are arranged for an “open scoring ” ,  i.e. you can choose the instruments, add octave doublings, leave out voices or improvise your own ideas to suit your taste. They offer a glimpse into the typically bittersweet melody and harmony of  Yiddish music ,  which emerged from a mixture of Yid-dish, Slavic, Rumanian and German stylistic  elements  and is currently undergoing a revival in the folk music scene.<br>