Scandinavian fiddling resources indiana university of pennsylvania. Vals fran ore orevalsen traditional revised 1607 140 4x g c 4 3 d7 g d7 g 1,3 2,4 4x cg d7 1,3 g see below 2,4 g this meas. Andrea hoag and loretta kelley are among the united states. Both the 9th and the th are not in the underlying chord but in stead are what we could call tidbits of outsideness. The series my project scandinavian fiddle tradition will eventually consist of 5 cds and 5 tunebooks of the traditional dance music of sweden, norway, denmark and finland, with its beautiful harmonies and compelling rhythms.
Welsh fiddle tunes published by schott music april 20. A reflection of a people, gave a voice to cajun, creole and zydeco pioneers, many of whom had never been interviewed. However, in order to give eager fiddlers a chance to begin to learn a relatively simple fiddle tune, a transcription is attached below as a pdf. He was a sensation at the festival of american fiddle tunes, port townsend, washington, where this selection was recorded in 1979, and responsible in large part for a great interest in cape breton music in the pacific northwest, which is still going strong today. A free online tune book of mostly irish and swedish traditional music. It might be possible to be very bored with such a cd, except that sven nyhus is a true virtuoso of his style.
The oldest swedish tunes, from medieval times, show a close relationship to flute and bagpipe music, and to herding calls and simple songs. The best tune book of scandinavian fiddling, unfortunately currently out of print. Please click on link to view a printable sheet music in pdf format. Each tune name is a link to a pdf file with the sheet music in standard notation.
Freshly harmonised and set for either nyckelharpa or violin. A link like 60 bpm leads to a midi file at the indicated speed, if any in bpm. Shop and buy swedish fiddle tunes for two violins sheet music. This is a special opportunity for young players of stringed instruments, and the youngatheart to join the group and learn traditional swedish tunes. I have been working with folkwiki, an abcbased wiki publicly editable archive of scandinavian tunes, to provide abc notation files for every tune in blue rose and a crossreference to the same tune at folkwiki. Our repertoire includes traditional dance tunes such as waltzes, schottisches, and polskas. Surprise inclusions are the oldtime fiddle standards midnight on the water and bonapartea. Scandinavian fiddle tunes is a collection of 73 arrangements for violin of traditional tunes from sweden, finland and norway. All these and many more are available on henrik norbecks abc tunes, which i recommend instead. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination.
Library of congress, fiddle tunes of the old frontier. Schott scandinavian fiddle tunes 73 pieces for violin. Some tunes are those that individuals have requested of me, and since i have them i might as well post them. We play the traditional folk music of sweden, primarily from the region of dalarna. The tunes have been noted down from various recordings, mainly groupa, filarfolket or trio ugb, or they are tunes i know and like enough to wrestle with those elusive rhythms. Folklore village swedish dance and music weekend dodgeville, wi, last.
Akta means genuine and spelman is a group of folk musicians. The book contains many of the standard favourite tunes in the current scandi scene in the uk and many more. Hardanger fiddle tunes are traditionally learned and taught by ear as explained in the above articles. Swedish fiddle definition of swedish fiddle by merriamwebster. Wonderful music made by me, in the death band valley symphony. Many of the tunes are also available as a single multipage pdf in. There are 34 recordings of this tune this tune has been recorded together with paddys trip to scotland lots of times, dinkeys lots of times, the auld pipe a few times, the boys of malin a few times and fiddlers joy a few times.
A popular waltz tune from ore, in eastern dalarna, sweden. See the podcast section of my site for recordings of these tunes. Andys scandy selection a collection of mostly swedish tunes, many of which will be familiar to regulars of the gregson thursday night session. Thats what we have here three folk fiddlers, a guitarist and a bassist genuine swedish folk musicians, except they are young americans who when asked if they wanted to dress up in traditional costumes for the cover photo answered in unison, no.
Folklife center news, volume 7 number 2 apriljune 1984. Although the title implies its for fiddle this book is perfect for the nyckelharpa. Tune collections on the internet mickey koth, fiddler, music librarian. If you discover a tune listed that has a composer, please contact me so that i can correct it. Get the guaranteed best price on fiddle tablature like the schott scandinavian fiddle tunes 73 pieces for violin string series softcover with cd at musicians friend. Here are sheet music and midi files for over 210 tunes. The asi spelmanslag is the fiddling group of the american swedish institute in minneapolis, minnesota. Scvfa tunes page santa clara valley fiddlers association. Her teaching credentials include the festival of american fiddle tunes, ashokan. Tune your fiddle, join the band, the best band in all texas land.
Learn to play hardanger fiddle association of america. Most of the above swedish and gammeldans tunes are played on the normal fiddle called flatfele in norway, often in ensembles with other instruments such as accordion, recorder, or fattigmannsfele poor mans fiddle the jews harp. University of oslo the fiddle volumes feleverkene definitive collection of over a thousand transcriptions of traditional tunes for hardingfele and regular fiddle note. Svend plays an oldtime sounding square dance fiddle tune with shuffle bow followed by these syncopated words. Swedish fiddle tunes for two violins by tune book sheet. Click on the tune name for the sheet music pdf file, the piano keys piano keys. Here he is backed up on guitar by northwest musician mike saunders. Someone who plays traditional music is called a spelman, plural spelman the verb att spela means to play music. A hardanger fiddle is a traditional stringed instrument from norway. Henriks irish and swedish traditional tunes and songs.
For fiddle tunes as one pdf file click below eric skye. Shop and buy norwegian fiddle tunes for two violins sheet music. For my overview of scandinavian fiddling click here. There are folks learning fiddle for the first time just to play scandi tunes, skipping right past celtic and old timey as if they never existed, and lots of musicians who have gone to swedish after being heavy into the irish and scottish music as if to say, been there done that. Transcriptions and audio files of over 550 traditional fiddle tunes from old recordings, festivals, jams and workshops, notated by john lamancusa click on the tune name for the sheet music pdf file, the piano keys to hear a synthesized midi file, or for a recording. Hardanger fiddle even further and gave it quite a new look. Gif files and abc format and songs that i play or sing. Each tune name is a link to a pdf file with the sheet music in. Generally, the modern hardanger fiddle was bigger and the body less curved than on the old type, it was far more decorated, and it normally had four sympathetic strings. Also see my article scandinavian fiddling for string teachers. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. I collected the following resources for a scandinavian fiddling workshop at the american string teachers association national conference in columbus, ohio, march 29, 2003. If you like this style, there are two books out, both under the title 358 danske folkdansemelodier with collections of folkloretunes from 19001905, collected by historians who travelled on horseback and wrote down the local tunes. Transcriptions and audio files of over 550 traditional fiddle tunes from old.
These tunes tend to be harmonically very simplistic and are built from very short formulaic phrases. Irish tunes songs swedish tunes abc tunes tune and lyrics links about swedish music my home page. Free downloads over 39,000 free fiddle music files for you to download and enjoy. The abc files also indicate which tunes are from the lamprey river band. Scandinavian traditional music specialist and folk fiddler vicki swan provides notes on the history of the music, as well as playing techniques and styles. Lillalag learn swedish tunes on the fiddle american. Norwegian fiddle tunes for two violins by tune book sheet. Swedish traditional music the swedish word is folkmusik is definitely alive, and there are lots of people all over sweden who play it. Bar 8 finds svend arpeggiating from e, the 3rd of c up to the 5th.
Sheet music to print laurie hart, traditional fiddler. Including fiddlers bid, the chair, willie hunter, the cullivoe fiddlers, catriona macdonald, fiona driver and more orkney and shetland fiddle players. Henriks traditional tunes and songs here are a some tunes. Other swedish tunes american nyckelharpa association. These are free collections of tunes in graphic format gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif andor in abc notation. All tunes here are, to the best of my knowledge, traditional and in the public domain. A reliable resource if you want to use sheetmusic or abcfiles for tunes to refer to. You will start to see folkwiki links pop up wherever there are abc files. Pum chwecheiniog learned by osmosis at sessions in wales gwyr y gogledd from ceri rhys matthews here played as bourrees 2. Led by members of the asi spelmanslag, the course runs for four sunday afternoons this fall. You must there are over 200,000 words in our free online dictionary, but you are looking for one thats only in the merriamwebster unabridged dictionary.
Old time fiddle tunes penn state mechanical engineering. Small pieces for fiddlers in folk music style zintl, frank imslp. Little polska 1 in swedish style fat version little polska 2 in. This is a listing of miscellaneous tunes, mostly those published in our newsletter nyckel notes. Tunes are presented in abc format and as standard notation in pdf format. It has resonating understrings placed under the grip board and give the instrument its characteristic sound. Most of these melodies and backing tracks were played by me at home with my family and dog running about, and each track was played straight through, so i accept all responsibility for any strange noises or mistakes you hear during the recordings. The decorations, inspired by the norwegian wood carving and rose painting traditions, made the.
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