I love this instrument so much that I feature a Hardanger fiddle in one of my novels. The character is a traveling tent musician who kept a diary in the late 1800s to early 1900s. (Wish I could have found a great HF photo to use for the cover!)
@@Loreboar0 I'm Scandinavian, but I'd never heard one of these played until I started research for The Great Restoration. I have my characters watching RUclips videos to better understand the instrument described in old journals. Enjoy your research and writing!
@@jennykalahar Dear diary, Today I saw a RUclips video of a guy playing a fiddle half naked on top of a windmill. Then I watched a cat compilation for 22 minutes ... A good day 😊
The so called 'Celtic' music has little or nothing of celtic left in It. It has Its origins in the late medieval music, and in the case of Scotland - and specially, the Shetland islands - the influence of Scandinavia is huge.
how does this sound celtic? I do find some gangars similar to jig music, but the rhythm in this tune (which approximates 2½/3 or "short 3") as far as I know isn't represented in any celtic musics, and as far as the melodic content, it's very uniquely norwegian as well. the way melodies are structured around chords and can move from the lower or higher chord note interchangably is an example of this. I just don't see why people make the celtic association.
Fundamentally yes. It sounds strongly like music for Telespringar (that is, the springar dance from Telemark), though, which I think gets usually counted by dancers & performers as a kind of pulsed "one, TWO-three"-- see the rhythm she's using with her foot. So 7/8 in Western music theory, but I doubt most people I've encountered in the Norwegian folk dance "scene" would automatically describe it as such.
+Devon Jones I'm much more into the music on the swedish side but they are similar. And I woulld said it is 3/4 but asymetric. Easier if you think of it as three beat per measure and let the leanght of beat vary. Stamp gets on the 1st and 3rd beat and the 2nd beat can move around. In this tune it evan sounds like the 3rd beat moves a bit - harder to dance... It is only a problem with defining it as 3/4 if you try to write it down.
I love this instrument so much that I feature a Hardanger fiddle in one of my novels. The character is a traveling tent musician who kept a diary in the late 1800s to early 1900s. (Wish I could have found a great HF photo to use for the cover!)
Funny, I’m here researching this fiddle and its sound for my novel as well!
@@Loreboar0 I'm Scandinavian, but I'd never heard one of these played until I started research for The Great Restoration. I have my characters watching RUclips videos to better understand the instrument described in old journals. Enjoy your research and writing!
@@jennykalahar
Dear diary,
Today I saw a RUclips video of a guy playing a fiddle half naked on top of a windmill. Then I watched a cat compilation for 22 minutes ... A good day 😊
Has similarities to Appalachian music
Like this...
Stay traditional!
What a beautiful tune
beautiful sound
Well done!
Sounds very similar to some traditional celtic tunes.
The so called 'Celtic' music has little or nothing of celtic left in It.
It has Its origins in the late medieval music, and in the case of Scotland - and specially, the Shetland islands - the influence of Scandinavia is huge.
@@ConsairtinFergus Isn't celtics mostly connected to wales?
how does this sound celtic? I do find some gangars similar to jig music, but the rhythm in this tune (which approximates 2½/3 or "short 3") as far as I know isn't represented in any celtic musics, and as far as the melodic content, it's very uniquely norwegian as well. the way melodies are structured around chords and can move from the lower or higher chord note interchangably is an example of this. I just don't see why people make the celtic association.
its completely different !
@@tonyjones7373 its really not. If you played this in Scotland or Appalachia, literally no one would would know this a Scandinavian tune.
Soooooooooooooooooooo good!
1:29 omg little cute baby🤗😚
What
@@tylerjohnson9095what what?
What is the tempo for this song? It sounds like it keeps changing.
7/8. Count 1,2,3,-1,2,1,2
Fundamentally yes. It sounds strongly like music for Telespringar (that is, the springar dance from Telemark), though, which I think gets usually counted by dancers & performers as a kind of pulsed "one, TWO-three"-- see the rhythm she's using with her foot. So 7/8 in Western music theory, but I doubt most people I've encountered in the Norwegian folk dance "scene" would automatically describe it as such.
+Devon Jones
I'm much more into the music on the swedish side but they are similar. And I woulld said it is 3/4 but asymetric. Easier if you think of it as three beat per measure and let the leanght of beat vary. Stamp gets on the 1st and 3rd beat and the 2nd beat can move around. In this tune it evan sounds like the 3rd beat moves a bit - harder to dance...
It is only a problem with defining it as 3/4 if you try to write it down.
123 12345 but 8 note syncopation under rhythm...
5/4 12-123
Rupak taal 7 beat raga pahadi :)
The name of the song she plays?
It's called springar its a type of music for dancing :)
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