Congregation Etz Chaim
Jewish and International MIDI Page
orchestrated and sequenced
by Michael Greenspan
All music and effects sequenced, orchestrated,
and played by Michael Greenspan with a Korg 05R/W General MIDI Sound Module
and Cakewalk Pro 3.0 Windows Software. Selected backing tracks generated
by Band-In-A-Box for Windows with both their styles collection and some
styles generated by Norton Music's
style collection . The quality of the sound you hear will depend on your
sound card or sound module.
I am a professional accordionist with many
years experience playing and arranging ethnic, international music for
public performance and for accompanying folk dance groups. I post
my MIDI arrangements of ethnic music here for all to enjoy.
Thank you for enjoying and helping to popularize
ethnic music in MIDI format.
Your comments are encouraged and welcome.
Contact me through either of the following two email addresses:
squeebox@attbi.com
squeebox@aol.com
Thanks,
Michael Greenspan
Directions
Netscape Communicator 4.+ for Windows
Left click your mouse on the MIDI file link
to hear the selection played on your sound card or sound module.
Right click your mouse on the MIDI file
link and choose "Save Link As" from the drop down menu.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.+ for Windows
Left click your mouse on the MIDI file link
and choose from the box whether you want to play the file or save it.
Macintosh directions for each of these browsers
need to be amended accordingly.
Jewish MIDI Files
Dayagim
A typical Israeli ensemble plays a
medley of two fisherman dances: Dayagim and Debka Dayagim.
Frailach
An electronic klezmer group playing
an assortment of Jewish dances featuring clarinets, accordion, cimbalom,
oboe and more!
Shir Habokrim
"Song of the Cowboys", but these are
Israeli cowboys of the Arava, performed by a hot country-western band.
Hayoshevet Baganim
"Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens"
from the Song of Songs in a lively arrangement.
Israeli Dance
Medley: A performance arrangement
of a medley of popular Israeli dances: Rad Halaila, Shiru Hashir,
Kershoshana, and El Ginat Egoz.
Ma Averech
"How Shall This Child Be Blessed?"
A beautiful Israeli Folkdance with clarinet, oboe, and a piano playing
a counter melody in octaves.
Hora Mamtera
A lively Israeli Folkdance featuring
a typical folkdance band with accordion, guitar, and clarinet solos.
Ma Tovu
A modern melody to Jewish Sabbath liturgy
performed in a light jazz style with a piano combo and soloists.
Sapari
A typically mideastern Yemenite Israeli
ensemble including oud and mideastern fiddle play a fluid dance tune.
Sherele
An electronic klezmer band plays several
Yiddish dance tunes.
Shibolet Basadeh
A classic Israeli harvest dance performed
by a folk dance ensemble.
Shim'u
"Listen O Ye Tent Dwellers", an Israeli
melody that features electronic textures juxtaposed with a pair of french
horns playing counter melody.
Uri Tsiyon
"Awake, O Zion" is another Israeli
song performed in a modern style with an electronic girl group singing
backup.
Yiddish Pop Overture
Lights out, curtain going up on this
medley of "In a Klein Shtibele", "Glick", Mein Yiddishe Meidel", "Hoo-tza-tza!",
"Belz, Mein Shtetele, Belz", "Oi, I Like She", "Papirossen", "Baigelach
(Bublitchki)"
Zemer Atik
"Ancient Melody" from Israel in a simple
style.
International MIDI Files
Bucimis
An exciting Bulgarian Folkdance in
15/16 time featuring a tar (drum), accordion, cimbalom, and woodwinds.
Czardas 1
An Hungarian Gypsy Ensemble plays a
typical piece that builds up fast and furious with cimbalom and violin.
Expectation Waltz
An old style Russian waltz named "Ozidanie"
that features a typical combo and lush strings.
Krakowiak
A Polish polka band featuring clarinet,
accordion, cheesy organ, and xylophone play a well known Polish dance.
Local Boy
A jazzy dixieland arrangement of a
Hawaiian song extolling the virtues of the local boys over the crowd from
the mainland.
Maui Girl
Another popular island song from Hawaii
in a peppy, swingy arrangement giving equal time to the beauty of a girl
from Maui.
On The March
A very militaristic march from the
Red Army Chorus that suggests missiles being paraded through Red Square.
An electronic Red Army sings the last chorus.
Along the Peterskaya Road
A Russian folksong featuring a bayan
(Russian Accordion), guitar, and some voices.
Regimental Polka
A classic Russian polka in an upbeat
arrangement.
Tiomnaya Noch
"Dark Is the Night", an old Russian
love song sung by a soldier on a battlefield to his love back home.
Dance of Zalongou
A lilting Greek dance in 7/8 time featuring
guitar, clarinet, and accordion.
Zhok
From the repertoire of the Moiseyev
Dance Company, a selection from a suite of dances called Moldavian Girl.
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