Yiddish New York 2024

Name: Working with Historical Recordings: Listening and Transcribing
Start: 2024-12-25T14:30:00-0500
End: 2024-12-25T15:45:00-0500

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Wednesday December 25, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST

Zoom

In the two sessions, we will look at how to listen to and work with historical recordings, and how to use transcription as a tool to achieve various outcomes, for example to create a lead sheet for your band, a memory and study aid for you as a performer, or as a basis for analysis and comparison with other performances and for teaching others. We will learn ways to translate what we are hearing into music notation, discussing how to make decisions about the pitch of the original recording and about the notation of meter, key signatures and accidentals, ornaments and variations, as well as the various levels of detail a transcription could contain.

Additional Information:
This class is intended for intermediate to advanced students. No previous experience with klezmer (or other traditional musics) is necessary. The ability to read and write music notation (by hand or with software) is a prerequisite. A basic knowledge of scales, intervals and chords is also helpful. Recordings of the tunes we discuss (or links to them) will be provided.

Speakers

Joel Rubin

Clarinetist and ethnomusicologist Joel Rubin has been one of the leading figures in the international klezmer movement as performer, scholar, author, educator, and producer for more than forty years. Rubin studied clarinet with Richard Stoltzman and Kalmen Opperman and learned klezmer... Read More →

Wednesday December 25, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
Zoom

Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

Yiddish New York 2024

Joel Rubin

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