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    Semper Concertina Semper Dolens...

    in Concertina Videos & Music

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    Thanks for your comments. My own favourite performance of this piece is Paul O'Dette's recording on his complete Dowland series - it's a wonder how he can give each of the four lines its own phrasing and direction on one instrument.

    Nice to hear I'm not the only one working on this repertoire - I had a look at the Preludium Mike, but I think it's the sort of piece that fits the English system much better than the anglo. All those fast diminutions against held basses would be really quite tricky on an anglo.

    Andy, I love the Praetorious dance and think it's an amazing achievement to play it on a 30 button anglo, but I can't help imagining what you would be able to do with a 38 or 40 button instrument... Don't you ever feel the urge?

     

    Adrian

    Adrian, I am positively chomping at the bit to get my hands on a 38 or 40 button concertina. I had commissioned Jeff Thomas to build a 40 button instrument for me a little over 2 years ago but when it came time for him to begin construction this past October, I, with a heavy heart, had to cancel. I simply cannot afford it at this time. Other unexpected expenses have crept into the equation. As john Lennon said, "life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans..."

     

    Andy.

    Semper Concertina Semper Dolens...

    in Concertina Videos & Music

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    This is my attempt at John Dowlands's Semper Dowland Semper Dolens played on my F/C Jeffries anglo - still all a bit rough around the edges and could do with some variation in the repeats, but I'm quite pleased with it for now. Not sure I'd ever feel comfortable about performing it though, for fear there might be a lute player lurking, but I'm a bit too close to it, to be totally objective and decide if the anglo brings anything to the party? Like Mille regretz, it fits nicely under the fingers of an anglo, with many reverses necessitating the same or conveniently located buttons, but you do need an instrument with more than 30 buttons. I used a keyboard transcription of the lute tablature, rather than the 5-part viol arrangement. As ever, any comments and ideas gratefully received.

     

    Adrian

    I love it! I think this is a great use of your anglo. Have a listen to this track I made of a Praetorious dance tune on my 30 button C/G Morse- https://soundcloud.com/andy-western/praetorius-dance-from-terpischore-1

    Nesi... Who Is Coming?

    in General Concertina Discussion

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    "war vets with visible piercings or tattoos, regardless of musicality." are all welcome... really. It's a very friendly and welcoming vibe/tribe. We are all too busy with concertinas, singing and music to talk much about politics, national policy and such. At least that's been my experience, and I hope it continues.

     

    A small anecdote...

     

    one of my dancing friends has been outed as a staunch political conservative, which I and most of our mutual friends are not... still, this person and I remain friends and we are able to greet each other warmly and sincerely (we have lots of history together). Does that speak to the hypocrite in me...? I choose to think not, but rather to the tolerant nature of folks who love the same thing... community, participation, a celebration of common interests and an ability to "agree to not agree" on everything else, in order to come together to mainly agree on the important things... fellowship and joyful creation that overcomes all ideology, bios and bigotry.

     

    Amen to that? Yes please, do chime in!

    Amen indeed!!!

    Swedish Engelska On Anglo.

    in Concertina Videos & Music

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    There are a couple tunes; if you go into iTunes store (a short sample) and type "Halsbäcks Svänggäng". Hope the letters show right for you; the second, third and fourth "a" are with dots above! It's the 5th tune "Engelskor från Tegneby & Ytterby…"

    If you are connected to Spotify, type the same and you can listen to the tunes in all.

    Enjoy!

    Thanks for the tip.

    Swedish Engelska On Anglo.

    in Concertina Videos & Music

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    Sorry to say, but this tune has nothing in common with the "Engelska"-tunes we play along the swedish west coast. And we have a lot of them… And as JIm writes; they originate from the reel tradition. And at the moment I can't remember any in a minor key. Though, the tune is not far from polkas from the middle and northern part of our country if you put up some speed...

    Can you please record yourself playing an Engelska and share it with us here? I'd love to hear a true blue west coast Engelska performed by a native of Sweden.

    Swedish Engelska On Anglo.

    in Concertina Videos & Music

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    Sorry to say, but this tune has nothing in common with the "Engelska"-tunes we play along the swedish west coast. And we have a lot of them… And as JIm writes; they originate from the reel tradition. And at the moment I can't remember any in a minor key. Though, the tune is not far from polkas from the middle and northern part of our country if you put up some speed...

    I don't care whether the tune is a true Engelska or not. I learned the tune from listening to an album of Swedish music ( http://www.amazon.com/Music-Sweden-Blekinge-Spelmansf%C3%B6rbund/dp/B000068789/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1409718994&sr=1-2&keywords=swedish+music ) and the title of the track is "Engelska ll." I am not losing sleep over whether it is or isn't an Engelska. It is a beautiful tune one way or the other. "A rose is a rose by any other name!"

    Swedish Engelska On Anglo.

    in Concertina Videos & Music

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    Very nice... and I'd like to know more.

    • What's your source? Is it something traditional among the Minnesota Swedes, or did you get it more directly from Sweden itself?
    • Is the harmony/arrangement yours, or did it "come with" the tune?
    • Engelska ("English") is a kind/category of dance... like polka, waltz, reel, etc. Have you seen it danced?

    As I've seen (and danced) it in Sweden, the dance has some similarities to old English reels, and I suspect that's how it originated, just as the polska ("Polish") evolved from a borrowed Polish tradition.

     

    Hi, Jim. Thank you for your comments. Always interesting to hear from you. I'll try my best to answer your questions.

     

    I learned the tune from listening to the following cd: ( http://www.amazon.com/Music-Sweden-Blekinge-Spelmansf%C3%B6rbund/dp/B000068789/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1409718994&sr=1-2&keywords=swedish+music ). It is track 6 and entitled, simply, "Engleska ll." I have not seen it danced.

     

    I would never submit or indeed perform a tune unless I felt I'd worked out my own arrangement of it. If you order the cd and listen to how the tune is performed therein compared to my own recording of it, I think you will find there are similarities as well as differences. I do play the same 2 part harmony in the A part, but honestly, this is such a common contrapuntal device/occurrence in traditional Swedish music that it would have taken me about 2 seconds to arrive at it just as a matter of course. The harmonic structure I employ in part B bears little resemblance to the arrangement on the cd and my use of the A 7th chord in the repeat of part A is also totally absent from the cd version.

     

    I hope that addresses your questions. Thanks again for the dialogue.

    Waltz For Kylin!

    in Concertina Videos & Music

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    I heard this gorgeous tune for the first time, just last week, at our wee session in Ballymoney Co. Antrim & straight away I knew I just had to learn it.

    I'm playing it here on my Wheatstone Baritone / Treble English Concertina, Fiddle, Mandolin & Whistle.

     

    A Waltz for Kylin

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

    P.S. That Session has been going now for 3 years, so I just posted this video, using Waltz for Kylin as the soundtrack, showing photos taken during our sessions, so far.
    As you'll see, we've had a good variety of instruments over the years. :)

     

    Very nice!

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