Schoeller's Klezmer Scores

November 2, 2008, Cleanup and Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 12:30:00 EST

I recently upgraded to the latest version of Lilypond. This resulted in a significant change in the layouts of some of the music. I have now finished cleaning up all of the problems caused by that change. Anything you download now should have a reasonable distribution across pages.

I just added Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl. I hope to have more Hanukah songs up soon.

October 19, 2008, material for Beth Elohim

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:30:00 EDT

I just added some of the songs for performing at Beth Elohim for Simchat Torah. I'm trying to get the rest of them in.

Am Yisrael Chai (Carlebach)
Am Yisrael Chai (Rockoff)
David Melech Yisrael
Eileh Chamdah Libi
Or Zarua
Yismechu Hashamayim

August 13, 2007, new link added

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:00 EDT

I just added some of the songs for performing at Beth Elohim for Simchat Torah. I'm trying to get the rest of them in.

Am Yisrael Chai (Carlebach)
Am Yisrael Chai (Rockoff)
David Melech Yisrael
Eileh Chamdah Libi
Or Zarua
Yismechu Hashamayim

January 1, 2007, Happy New Year!, change some keys

Mon, 1 Jan 2007 20:15:00 EST

I have, per Judy's request, transposed Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn into Gm and Tum-Balalayke into Cm.

I have also started on an Alto part for Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn that is a true backing part and not a melody or a harmony that follows the melody. This is not complete but is available in the A section.

Per Barbara Maxwell's observation, I have fixed the mistransposition of the bass part in Goldene Khasene. I agree with Barb's observation that the initial key of the song looks odd. I have not fixed that yet.

December 19, 2006, Abi Gezunt plus general clean up

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:00:00 EST

I had added the tenor and trombone parts to Abi Gezunt, but had neglected to add the links to them in this page. That has been remedied. I also fixed the vocalization ni the yiddish title.

I upgraded the version of LilyPond again. I am at 2.10.2 now. I've been running convert-ly on the sources bring them up to version. The only difference there should be the version number in the footer of the final page.

I have also put the comicbook style font back into the bass parts. What I observed is that these are read and print just fine using Acrobat on Windows. The display just fine, but I can't get them to print using KPDF on my Linux box. Acrobat on Linux won't read them. If you have other observations or find this to be a problem, let me know.

The following were run through convert-ly and have the fun returned to the bass part.

Abi Gezunt
Ale Brider
Der Alter Tsigayner
Artsa Alinu
Bay a Glezele Mashke
Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn
Baym Rebn in Palestina
Bolter Bulgar
Bulgar 17
Flatbush Waltz
Freylekhs 2 (K. 1-2)
Freylekhs 4 (K. 1-4)
Freylekhs 5 (K. 1-5)
Freylekhs 9 (K. 1-9)
Freylekhs in Cm
Freylekhs in Dm
Freylekhs Medley
Fun Der Khupe #2 (K. 1-3)

December 17, 2006, some tenor and trombone work and some clean up

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:00:00 EST

I added tenor and trombone parts to Abi Gezunt.

I added a tenor part to Tsena (not all instruments). I also cleaned up the placement of rehearsal marks.

Did some general clean up of rehearsal mark placement and line breaks. This became necessary because of some differences in the new version LilyPond.

December 13, 2006, more example recordings, 2 new songs, bass line for "Rumenye, Rumenye"

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:45:00 EST

Got MP3 recordings of the following.

Added first cut at Yehudah Katz's Nigun Halelu. I'm trying to turn a folk rock nigun into a klezmer one. Experiments galore!

Added a bass line to Rumenye, Rumenye.

Added a first cut at Abi Gezunt.

December 12, 2006, upgraded LilyPond and worked on lyrics

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:30:00 EST

I put the rest of the lyrics in Rumenye, Rumenye. This should make it ready to rehearse.

I rebuilt all of the PDF files. Because of an upgrade to LilyPond, I had to change the parts of the source that put in the instrument names on the conductor's scores. This version also seems to have problems with Comic style fonts I was using in the conductor's scores, the bass parts and a few other places. Until I can figure out the source of that problem, I will leave things in a more traditional font.

We are now moving into doing Yiddish songs, rather than pure instrumentals. Of the songs on this site, the following have lyrics on the leadsheets.

In addition, the following songs have lyrics that I haven't entered yet. Those will be coming along soon.

December 10, 2006, updated example recordings

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:00:00 EST

Added or changed the example recordings for the following songs:

November 4, 2006, Freylekhs in Dm and Nokh a Bisel updated

Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:59:00 EST

Added the ending that we have been doing to Freylekhs in Dm.

Changed the flute part to be melody and tenor in Nokh a Bisel (K. 1-8).

September 27, 2006, Ale Brider gets a bass line

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:10:00 EDT

Added the bass line to Ale Brider and cleaned up some of the printing layout.

September 25, 2006, Added 2 new songs

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:30:00 EDT

I upgraded LilyPond to the latest stable version. As a result a complete rebuild was done. In theory everything should be the same as previous. However, there might be small differences in the output.

I added 2 new songs at the request of Agnes Fázold. They are still works in progress. I haven't added the bass lines yet, let alone other harmony or counterpoint parts.

August 14, 2006, Fixed glissandos

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:50:00 EDT

I have cleaned up the implementation of glissandos and some other layout issues in the following tunes:

July 24, 2006, Raised Freylekhs in Dm clarinet an octave

Thu, 24 Jul 2006 19:20:00 EDT

At Fred Ledley's request, I raised the clarinet part for Freylekhs in Dm an octave.

July 6, 2006, Honga fix is fixed

Thu, 6 Jul 2006 07:50:00 EDT

Susan has pointed out that the previous fix to measure 34 in Honga put the note up an octave. That is now fixed.

July 4, 2006, Honga fixed

Wed, 5 Jul 2006 09:50:00 EDT

Susan pointed out, and I have fixed a problem in Honga at measure 34.

June 14, 2006, Violin available

Thu, 14 Jun 2006 10:00:51 EDT

The violin parts now have the chord letters. The trumpet parts also have chord letters, but I have not yet fixed the page breaks and places where the rehearsal marks overlap the chord letters.

BTW, as part of this effort I have been attempting to get more rational page turns. The assumption is that you are printing most things double side. If there are an odd number of pages of music, then print the last two pages on one side of an 8.5"x11" sheet.

I discovered that the chords were wrong in the coda of Kolemeyke. This has been repaired.

June 14, 2006, Oops corrected in alto sax. Clarinet available

Thu, 14 Jun 2006 10:00:51 EDT

Yesterday's update had 2 problems:

The alto sax part had the chords in C instead of E♭
The clarinet part had not been updated with the chords

Both of these have been corrected.

The trumpet and violin will probably not be dealt with until next week.

June 13, 2006, More parts with chord letters

Thu, 13 Jun 2006 07:00:51 EDT

At our last session, Fred L. and Susan asked that I redo their parts with the chord letters. This work is in progress. I also fixed some layout problems in instruments that already had chord letters. As a result new versions of all of the following instruments have been uploaded.

Accordion
Alto Sax
Bass
Clarinet
Drums
Flute
Guitar
Lead Sheets
Piano
Orchestra Scores
Trombone

Clarinet, trumpet and violin should be along soon.

June 8, 2006, Fixed "Freylekhs in Dm"

Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:15:51 EDT

Fred noted that the the final note in measure 29 of Freylekhs in Dm was an A and should be an A♭. This has been fixed.

June 6, 2006, Fixed "Freylekhs in Dm" MIDI

Tue, 6 Jun 2006 21:50:51 EDT

I discovered and fixed a problem in the way the bass line was being handled in Freylekhs in Dm.

June 6, 2006, Fixed "Tangissimo"

Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:35:51 EDT

I discovered and fixed a cut and paste error in the attributions for Tangissimo.

May 24, 2006, Added "Freylekhs in C minor" and fixed "Freylekhs in D minor"

Wed, 24 May 2006 21:40:51 EDT

Fixed a problem with the "D.S." rehearsal mark in Freylekhs in D minor.

Added a new song, Freylekhs in C minor. Currently this consists of the melody from a lead sheet that Fred Ledley picked up at KlezmerShack's mini Klezmer Festival, cleaned up and transposed into parts. I have not done the chords or bass lines yet. That also means that the volta brackets for the repeats are not drawn in on parts that have chords. This song was recorded by Metropolitan Klezmer on Yiddish for Travelers.

May 23, 2006, Added "Freylekhs in D minor" and expanded "Mayn Shtetl Yas"

Tue, 23 May 2006 10:12:51 EDT

I added new song Freylekhs in D minor. Currently this consists of the melody from a lead sheet that Fred Ledley picked up at KlezmerShack's mini Klezmer Festival, cleaned up and transposed into parts, and a bass line. I have not yet added (but I will) add an alternative melody variation from Klezmer Plus!

I expanded the clarinet and tenor sax parts of Mayn Shtetl Yas. I made them refer to each other.

May 18, 2006, Much clean up

Thu, 18 May 2006 12:00:00 EDT

I fixed a large number of layout problems through out the songs. This has been dribbling out for a while, but I figured it was worth announcing.

I used some Comic style fonts in the bass parts and the orchestra scores. Any comments on the relative merits of traditional, formal fonts versus modern, casual fonts would be appreciated.

Finally the LilyPond sources for everything can be found here.

May 18, 2006, Add RSS Feed

Thu, 18 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Added RSS news feed to this page. Use your RSS aggregator to keep up on changes.

March 28, 2006, Fixed paper size bug

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EDT

I discovered that new versions of the music were being created with paper size A3, a European size, instead of Letter. This has been fixed.

March 24, 2006, Fixed Bay a Glezele Mashke

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Fixed up some problems in Bay a Glezele Mashke. This includes fixing the wrong note in the melody and providing melody and tenor, in the appropriate range, for all of the melody instruments.

March 22, 2006, Spring is here!

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EDT

Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
- Tom Lehrer, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"

OK, back on topic. I have been converting over to the new version of Lilypond. As a result we pick up some new capabilities:

I don't have to manually implement counting of measure repeats
It is much easier to get a clean adjustment of the staves to fill, but not overfill, the page
New adjustments are available that make controlling the locations of rehearsal marks much easier

In addition, I changed the way I have organized the sources. Currently about half of the songs have been converted to the new version and new organizational system.

Finally, I'd like to thank the band members for a great performance on Purim at Temple Aliyah. As Susan so aptly put it, "Still smiling about our Purim concert?" The answer to that is yes and we all should be!