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[michael sam wild]

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

[SteveS]

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 by SteveS, 29 August 2011 - 10:12 AM.

[Steve Mansfield]

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 by Steve Mansfield, 29 August 2011 - 10:23 AM.

[michael sam wild]

Thanks , Vickyand Jonny put this up too http://homepage.mac....per/whitby.html

[anlej]

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

[JimLucas]

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.

[John Wild]

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

[Steve Mansfield]

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

[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

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 by John Wild, 29 August 2011 - 06:00 PM.

[MarkvN]

Hi Michael,
You'll find large collections of old Swedish manuscripts here
http://www.smus.se/e...dex.php?lang=en
here
http://www.lu.se/fol...ar/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

[RatFace]

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).

[michael sam wild]

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

[eskin]

Some Säckpipa tunes might work out well on the concertina, perhaps transposed:

http://w7fr0p555.hom...pa-Lehrbuch.pdf

[SteveS]

Some Säckpipa tunes might work out well on the concertina, perhaps transposed:

http://w7fr0p555.hom...pa-Lehrbuch.pdf

Some good tunes here - some of them I play already on EC - they work well.

Edited by SteveS, 30 August 2011 - 12:20 PM.

[blue eyed sailor]

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!

[Chris Drinkwater]

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

[MarkvN]

Thank you all for some very nice tune collections and recordings!
Mark

[Steve Mansfield]

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.