Tune Name
Type / Tradition |
Notes |
Recording, Artist(s) |
Blues
for Hardingfele (MP3)
Original tune by Seth
Austen (USA) and performed by Dan Trueman.
Hear also,18
other MP3 samples. |
AmeriKappleik was the largest celebration of Norwegian folk
music and dance that HFAA has ever assembled, held in Northfield,
Minnesota, in July 2003. One of the featured events was AmerikaSlåttar,
a concert of original compositions and arrangements of traditional
and non-traditional styled Hardanger fiddle tunes for both dancing
and listening. Selected performances from this night comprise
a small portion of AmeriKappleik
Live! but nearly all are available
here as music samples. |
AmeriKappleik
Live!, Dan
Trueman (USA),
hardingfele. |
Bridal
March from Vang (MP3)
Bridal March from Valdres |
This Bridal March is from the deepest part of
the Valdres valley in central Norway. The melody was taught by
Tore Bolstad and David Code composed the harmony arrangement. |
Norsk
Spring Dance,
Karin
Løberg Code (USA), hardingfele and David Løberg
Code (USA), hardingfele |
Dervish (MP3)
Original tune by Dan
Trueman (USA) |
"I wrote Dervish for the 6-string electric fiddle
shortly after first hearing the music of the Hardanger fiddle;
it is the tune that started off the Hot Dang'r collection that
I have been adding to now for several years. I am now working
on a new version for Hardanger fiddle that I hope will become
a new American gangar." — Dan Trueman |
Hot
Dang'r,
Dan
Trueman (USA), hardingfele,
and
Monica Mugan (USA), guitar |
Fanteladda (MP3)
Springar from Valdres |
This popular dance tune from Valdres was taught
by Harald Røine and is a wonderful example of the valley's
rhythms. All of the dance-tune tracks on this CD offer similar
loud foot-tapping for the beginning dancer, fiddler, or dance
teacher. |
Norsk
Spring Dance, Karin
Løberg Code (USA), hardingfele |
Fille
Vern (MP3)
Gangar from Setesdal |
"Ragged Vern" is one of Setesdal's most
common dance tunes and was documented by the Norwegian-American
fiddler, Eivind D. Aakhus. Aakhus probably learned this tune
from Olaf T. Austad (1851-91), son of the legendary founder of
Setesdal music, Tarkjell Aslaksson Austad. |
From Slåtter
i tradisjon etter Meisterspelemannen Eivind D. Aakhus, Vidar Lande (Norway), hardingfele |
Fossegrimen
(MP3)
Gangar from Telemark |
The Fossegrimen is the supernatural spirit that
lives in the waterfall. If you go to the waterfall at midnight
at midsummer, and throw in a leg of mutton, the Fossegrimen will
appear. It will teach you to play the fiddle, drawing your fingers
up and down the strings until they bleed. But if you throw in
a bone with no meat on it, the spirit will only teach you to
tune the instrument! Hauk Buen, who plays here, is one of the
foremost players of the Hardanger fiddle today. The full recording
is available from the HFAA catalog.
Submission of a leg of mutton is not required. |
From Myllargutens
Minne, Hauk Buen and Knut Buen (Norway), hardingfele |
Hovin-stubben
(MP3)
Springar from Hovin, Telemark. |
The area of Hovin in Telemark formerly had a thriving
hardingfele tradition, but the number of fiddlers there has since
declined. This tune was taught in California in 1984 by Bjarne
Pålerud, one of the main tradition bearers for Hovin music
until his death in 1991. It is now likely that there are more
fiddlers in American playing this tune than there are in Norway. |
From AmerikaSpel
Loretta
Kelley (USA), hardingfele
|
Med
syljer og stas (MP3)
Bridal March from Sunnmøre |
This Bridal March was written by Jens Synnes (1911-87),
a fiddle player and composer from Sjøhold in Ørskog.
He composed folk music and fiddle tunes in the old style. |
From Med
syljer og stas,
Aalesund Spelemannslag (Norway) |
Norwegian-American
Waltz (MP3)
Waltz after Kjetil Løndal |
Åsmund Buen learned this waltz when he lived
in Eagle Bend, Minnesota, for eight years before returning to
Norway. |
Norse
Fiddle at Home, Karen
Solgård (USA), hardingfele |
Ola
Janson's Waltz (MP3)
Norwegian-American Waltz from Bygland, MN |
This waltz was popular among the Norwegian-American
settlers (many originally from Setesdal) in the Bygland area
of Minnesota. The source for this tune (and others on the CD)
are the tape collection of Daniel E. Aakhus at the University
of Minnesota and the old-time fiddler, Harold Sorenson of Bygland,
MN. The title refers to an early settler of Bygland (MN) who
was a contemporary of Norwegian-American fiddler, Eivind D. Aakhus. |
From Slåtter
i tradisjon etter Meisterspelemannen Eivind D. Aakhus,
Vidar Lande (Norway), hardingfele and Tove Grønbekk (Norway),
guitar |
Sordølen (WAV)
Gangar from Setesdal |
This
widely known melody in the Setesdal playing tradition is related to a
tale of tragic events that began at a dance on a farm. Aside from this
instance of misfortune, dancing would otherwise have been a routine
affair around an 18th century village. It has since assumed a lively
dance tempo with playful rhythmic combinations. |
Courtesy
of Marius A. Moen Monrad (Norway), munnharpe |
Springdans
etter Gunnar Strømmen (MP3)
Springdans from Sunnmøre |
This is Springdans No. 139 in the Stafset collection.
Gunnar (Gunder) Karolus Strømmen (1823-1908) was one of
the best fiddlers in Skodje. This tune is was written down from
his playing of it. |
From Med
syljer og stas,
Aalesund Spelemannslag (Norway) |
Summer
Moonlight (MP3) Telespringar by K. Solgård |
A poem by Emily Brontë lends itself to the
irregular ¾ rhythm of the telespringar, a running dance
from Telemark. Imbedded in the tune is Springar fra Vinje
etter Eivind Groven. |
Norse
Fiddle at Home, Karen
Solgård (USA), hardingfele, Bradley Greenwald (USA), vocals |
Urheimen (MP3)
Vossarull from Hardanger |
Oddmund Urheim was a well-known fiddler of the
last century from the Hardanger region of Western Norway. This
tune fits well with the style of the vossarull, a couples dance
whose main element is smooth, graceful turning. |
From AmerikaSpel
Loretta
Kelley (USA), hardingfele and Dick Rees (USA), accordion |
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