michael sam wild Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 I went to a great workshop/session at Whitby with Vicky Swann and Jonny Dyer. The taught us some nice Swedish tunes and they fitted nicely under the fingers on the Anglo C/G. The Nykelharpa was nice to play along to maybe it has the same feel as a concertina reeds. Has anyomne got any good links for the Swedish tunes.? I have a few Vasen CDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveS Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 (edited) I went to a great workshop/session at Whitby with Vicky Swann and Jonny Dyer. The taught us some nice Swedish tunes and they fitted nicely under the fingers on the Anglo C/G. The Nykelharpa was nice to play along to maybe it has the same feel as a concertina reeds. Has anyomne got any good links for the Swedish tunes.? I have a few Vasen CDs FolkWiki is a good source of tunes. Swedish music is my favourite - duets with EC and fiddle work especially well. Edited August 29, 2011 by SteveS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Mansfield Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 (edited) I've always found Scandinavian music sits really well on the EC, both for listening and for playing. If you can get hold of a copy, Ben Paley's book for Dragonfly, 'Swedish Fiddle Music', is a great collection. The Yorkshire Dales Workshop people also published a good collection, 'Music and dances from Sweden', which might still be available somewhere or other (haven't Googled sources of either book). Online collections include: http://richardrobins...lection/28?i=47 http://www.andyhornb...ll%20scandi.ABC http://www.pineycree...nes/Flilkid.abc and, if you're interested, I've also got a personal abc file of about 50 tunes which I'll happily share, PM me if interested. Great music, enjoy! [Edited because I couldn't spell Yorkshire] Edited August 29, 2011 by Steve Mansfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael sam wild Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 Thanks , Vickyand Jonny put this up too http://homepage.mac.com/smallpiper/whitby.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnC Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Thanks Mike and Steve for the links I didn't get to the Swedish tunes workshop at Whitby as it clashed with the Early/Renaissance music one. More tunes to learn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 I went to a great workshop/session at Whitby with Vicky Swann and Jonny Dyer. They taught us some nice Swedish tunes.... Sweden is a wonderful place for music! It has many (thousands of) wonderful tunes, and a great number of regional styles. And I'd say a greater fraction of the population is actively involved in the folk music than in any other country, including Ireland. ...and they fitted nicely under the fingers on the Anglo C/G. I wish I could get my friend Pontus to do some recordings. He played fiddle before concertina; he dances; and he also plays the one-row "melodeon". But the concertina is where he really shines... all great traditional Swedish tunes on his Dipper County Clare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wild Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 there is a book called Fiddle music from Northern Lands, this is a collection of tunes from Scandinavian countries -loosely defined to include Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Orkney and Shetland ISBN 978-0-9560771-0-35 I ordered my copy through an ebay shop - it may still be available that way. Look in music/song books within the musical instruments category. It came with a CD which has the tunes in the book as PDF files and as midi files, plus some as scorch files for Sibelius. It was £11.99+post Published by Catacol, Montgarrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland beezer2001@lineone.net - John Wild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Mansfield Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 there is a book called Fiddle music from Northern Lands, this is a collection of tunes from Scandinavian countries -loosely defined to include Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Orkney and Shetland ISBN 978-0-9560771-0-35 I ordered my copy through an ebay shop - it may still be available that way. Look in music/song books within the musical instruments category. It came with a CD which has the tunes in the book as PDF files and as midi files, plus some as scorch files for Sibelius. It was £11.99+post Published by Catacol, Montgarrie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland beezer2001@lineone.net - John Wild What, you mean Ebay item 200637008564 (just search Ebay for that number)? Thanks for that John, there's already one less copy available now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wild Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 (edited) What, you mean Ebay item 200637008564 (just search Ebay for that number)? Thanks for that John, there's already one less copy available now Yes.that is the one, and the same seller ID. I think I have to apologise as well because the price I quoted referred to (I believe) the book on CD only without the hard copy. The price I paid for this item is the same as now, £18.50+post. I strongly recommend it. the current advert on Ebay says there are still 5 available, but I expect when these have gone it might come round again. regards - John Edited August 29, 2011 by John Wild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkvN Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Hi Michael, You'll find large collections of old Swedish manuscripts here http://www.smus.se/earkiv/fmk/index.php?lang=en here http://www.lu.se/folklivsarkivet/skaanes-musiksamlingar/notsamlingen and here http://www.gotlandstoner.se/web/. And a very nice Danish site with a lot of Scandinavian music (also abc, midi and pdf, if I remember well) is http://www.spillefolk.dk/ Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatFace Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 If you can get hold of a copy, Ben Paley's book for Dragonfly, 'Swedish Fiddle Music'... This is indeed a great book. I recorded some of the tunes for practice purposes here (towards the end of that page). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael sam wild Posted August 30, 2011 Author Share Posted August 30, 2011 If you can get hold of a copy, Ben Paley's book for Dragonfly, 'Swedish Fiddle Music'... This is indeed a great book. I recorded some of the tunes for practice purposes here (towards the end of that page). Can you tell us, is that link part of a web site or a 'one off' ? Intersting tunes and a lotof hard work obviously gone into it! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Eskin Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Some Säckpipa tunes might work out well on the concertina, perhaps transposed: http://w7fr0p555.homepage.t-online.de/S%E4ckpipa-Lehrbuch.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveS Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 (edited) Some Säckpipa tunes might work out well on the concertina, perhaps transposed: http://w7fr0p555.homepage.t-online.de/S%E4ckpipa-Lehrbuch.pdf Some good tunes here - some of them I play already on EC - they work well. Edited August 30, 2011 by SteveS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Molkentin Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 And a very nice Danish site with a lot of Scandinavian music (also abc, midi and pdf, if I remember well) is http://www.spillefolk.dk/ Wow, simply amazing! no abc, but gif and pdf (as well as midi). Dozens of tunes alone from "my" beloved Fanø... Thanx a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Drinkwater Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 There is also this website for the Scandinavian Sessions in London, which I go to. It has PDFs of many of the tunes we play at the sessions. And sometimes, Vicki Swann, herself, comes to the sessions to play with us, which is nice. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkvN Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Thank you all for some very nice tune collections and recordings! Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Mansfield Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 My copy of 'Fiddle music from Northern Lands' arrived yesterday, and it's lovely - nice clear music & good production values generally, lots of information, and a good proportion of new-to-me tunes alongside the standards. That's my leisure playing sorted for the next few weeks Thanks to John Wild for the tip-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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