A great first session with the autumn
scandi music course at 14 Bacon street, I really enjoyed the evening! The two
tunes we did were both collected in Härjedalen and in a style connected with
western Sweden and the borders to Norway. The first was a halling from the
fiddler Christoffer Tholson (1864-1945) and the second a triplet-based polska
from another fiddler, Olof Löfgren (1865-?). This polska is often called Djävulspolskan,
the devil’s polska, and my version of it is mostly influenced by a recording on
the album Härjedalspipan (you can see the original and slightly different
transcript here). Below is my arrangement of the polska and the halling
tune. Recordings of both will be up soon.
If you want to listen to some more tunes in
this style I can recommend groups and musicians such as Hoven Droven,
Kjell-Erik Eriksson, Lasse Sörlin, and also records by Pettersson och
Fredriksson, and Ulrika Bodén. You’ll find some of this on Spotify and YouTube.
Looking forward to next week when we’ll
play some tunes from Hälsingland.
Halling
Polska
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