Tune Req: Gypsy/Romani fiddle tunes

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gypsy/Romani fiddle tunes
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 03:13 PM

Certainly Romani musicians in England share a common repertoire with us gorgios. I can't speak for the rest of Europe.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gypsy/Romani fiddle tunes
From: Kim C
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 03:07 PM

OhmaGAWD! My favorite fiddle was made in Romania. I'm going to have to get that book!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gypsy/Romani fiddle tunes
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 01:57 PM

Get a copy of " Raggle Taggle" by Walter Starkie which relate the exploits of an Irish university professor as he travels around Hungary with his fiddle in 1929 ( with lots of examples of gypsy playing in standard notation). Copies of this book often turn up on Ebay UK. All of Starkie's books are well worth reading.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Gypsy/Romani fiddle tunes
From: M.Ted
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 01:36 PM

Romani musicians are professional musicians--that is to say that they play the music that people want to hear, wherever they happen to be--For that reason, in Russia, they play Russian tunes, in Romania, they play Romanian, in Hungary--well, you get the idea--to a great degree, the musicians repertoire was the same as non-romany--F

or fiddle at least, the Romanian music is the stuff that we usually associate with Gypsy playing--Miamon Miller did a book on how to play Romanian Folk Fiddle that will help you out considerably--Books by Miamon Miller it is not very expensive--also, Miamon knows about many different ethnic styles of fiddle playing and he teaches as well--

Subject: Tune Req: Gypsy/Romani fiddle tunes
From: GUEST,Poddy
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 11:19 AM

Hi, everyone. This is my first post...I hope it works!

I'm working on creating a gypsy minstrel character for a live-action role playing thingy I just started doing. I'd really like the character to be relatively authentic, and I was wondering if anyone knows of any sources for sheet music/transcriptions of romani tunes. I'm looking for stuff for solo fiddle, two fiddles or fiddle and guitar. And ideally, it would be FREE.

Thanks a lot!