Klezmer-Musik
Joel Rubin / Rita Ottens Klezmer-Musik (in German) dtv 30748 / Bärenreiter 1990 with numerous illustrations and musical examples An original publication of Bärenreiter-Verlag and dtv, 1999. Currently out of print. “Here at last is an authoritative and scholarly history of the subject... The authors ... have produced a work that at one stroke dispels the fog of ignorance and false assumptions that has long surrounded this subject. The authors set forth in extraordinary detail the history of klezmer music from its roots in the Middle Ages up to the present day. We now have access for the first time to a wealth of detailed information concerning the life, musical training and repertoire and social milieu of the East European klezmorim. However, it is not only a history of the genre,…