Welcome to Tzigistan.

Here you will find a whole lot of stuff- pick your way through it, and let me know what is useful.

kompleat klezmer (13 Mb pdf)
realbooks
Arban (41 Mb pdf)
Manuscript paper
Kennon- the technique of orchestration (26 Mb pdf)
The eight musical modes

Arty shots of Tzigani

Tzigas Setlist

A separate page with a list of all our tunes, comments on each tune, and some general comments at the end. What is written is simply a start, and will reflect David's personal biases- change it!.

Tzigas arrangements

Here is the standard set of chord changes that Mikey Flute keeps scribbling out for people. Tzigas Fakebook

Here is a bunch of pdf files of scores, generated using Sibaelus. There may be a few errors here and there- let me know and I will fix them. Madeleine did the hard work typesetting these. Ideally, everyone would pick a tune and plug it into Sibelius, putting the arrangement at the bottom.

Turk in America
Impromptu (Mads' version)
Impromptu (Mikey Flute's version)
Tanz Tanz Yidileh (Dance, dance Jews)
Tanz repeated in a cycle of fifths for practice purposes

Miscaellaneous sheet music

Have a browse.

Harlem Noctourne Heyser Bulgar transposed for clarinet Heyser transposed differently Minor Swing Nakh in gan eydn (clarinet transposed) Nokh a gleyzl wine transposed for clarinet Nuages Odessa transposed for clarinet

Playalongs

These are practice aids. Let me know which ones you are using, and which ones are useless

Here is a 9/8 metronome in mp3 format; 34 bars, 250 beats per minute.
Mikey Flute wrote this tune a while back- it's a midi playalong.