The Autumn's first scandi course session with the Trad Academy

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

Last Scandi course session for this term.

It's been a really good course this term, a lovely mix of musicians and a lot of tunes!
The last piece we did was this polska from Karin Wallin and next weekend those who can will come to the museum of childhood to perform last weeks Engelska tunes with the Trad Academy's other courses.
Here is the Leipzig polska:

and the dots:

I am aware that some of you found it difficult to access the notation on this page and I will look into that as soon as possible.

Fifth Scandi course session - Engelska

Last week we did a long Engelska set and here are the dots and recordings. I am aware that especially the Amajor tune was a bit tricky on melodeon (although its is not as tricky as it might seem!) and maybe a few other instruments too. Therefore I have added a melodeon/other instruments edit of the tune too. We're back to the polskas this week although we'll also run through the Engelska's again. Hope to see you there for our last session of this term and don't forget that there is a performance opportunity with the group on St Georges Day, Saturday the 23rd of April where the plan is to play and dance Engelska together with other groups from the Trad Academy!

 

And then the anti-accidental/low notes version (just endings and A part, everything else the same as above):

More tunes

After today's session (16th March) The Scandinavian folk music course will have a two-week break over Easter and we start again with the two last sessions on the 6th and 13th of April. If you get tired of the tunes we have done this far and want more tunes to practice during the break have a look at the polskas we did in the autumn 2015 polska course you can find them here:
First session
Second session 
Third session
Fourth session

Good luck with the tunes and see you again in April.

Scandi music course session 4

Kruspolskan from  Styrbjörn Bergelt, Hedningarna etc.

Polska from Anders Petter Dufva's 1807 tune manuscript

Scandi session three

Kofyr... Halling

Kofyr... halling with melodeon fingerings

Bass line / counter melody
 

Scandi music course session two