Trollens Brudmarsch
Dec. 8th, 2017 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI love all Swedish folk music that I have heard, but one particularly enchanting tune is Trollens brudmarsch. (The name means "The Wedding March of the Trolls", or since "troll" can also refer to magic, it could also mean "the wedding march of magic", where the plural word magic is the thing that owns the wedding march.) I have been a bit afraid of trying to learn it, since there are those bits where there are an awful lot of notes played quickly together. However, I have decided it is finally time to try, so this evening I painted the sheet music with the same colour-coding I have on my dulcimer and started giving it a try.
I think I am going to need to consult with someone about the sheet music though--I am still not really clear on the rules of markings of sharps and flats when some are marked within the body of the music and some are not--I think I remember hearing somewhere that another note of the same sort within the same bar will also be sharp or flat if the first one was marked, but if that is correct, how soon does it wear off? Clearly it must, or they wouldn't bother marking them again. This tune is in the the key where both B and E are supposed to be flat, and there are are a fair few C's and F's that are marked as sharps, but not all of them. I think that means I will need to play some as sharp and others as natural. If anyone wants to look at the sheet music, it is available here , along with all of the other "allspelnoter" (notes for the "everyone plays" session) from our Spelmansstämma. However, I have managed to hit the strings for the first phrase in such a way that it actually sounds like it is supposed to sound. It is a start...
I had meant to do uni work today, even though I normally have Friday's off. It didn't happen. I did do some laundry, some general tidying up, made more of the cloth bags to protect the Frostheim ceramics, and spent three hours shoveling snow, in three different sessions, two of 45 minutes each, and the third after David arrived to drive the tractor. Clearly while we had plenty of snow-dunes from last night's wind with some new snow, it wasn't as wet and heavy as two weeks ago when we also needed to use the tractor to clear snow, since on that occasion it took both of us working, he with the tractor and me with a shovel, three hours to clear both driveways and the parking area between, and this time it took only 1.5 hours, and I spent most of that time working on the paths to the sheds, rather than the driving areas (and last time we didn't do the shed paths on the same occasion). However, while today was easier than a couple of weeks ago, my favourite was last week, when we had only 3 to 5 cm of such light fluffy snow I was able to push the shovel from one end of the driveway to the other before needing to empty it, and working on my own managed to do both driveways and the parking area between in only 40 minutes...
I hope I will work some tomorrow, but since David and I want to stop by the Julmarknad in Gammelstad and I will probably do some baking for Sunday's birthday party, I am not certain how much I will manage...
I think I am going to need to consult with someone about the sheet music though--I am still not really clear on the rules of markings of sharps and flats when some are marked within the body of the music and some are not--I think I remember hearing somewhere that another note of the same sort within the same bar will also be sharp or flat if the first one was marked, but if that is correct, how soon does it wear off? Clearly it must, or they wouldn't bother marking them again. This tune is in the the key where both B and E are supposed to be flat, and there are are a fair few C's and F's that are marked as sharps, but not all of them. I think that means I will need to play some as sharp and others as natural. If anyone wants to look at the sheet music, it is available here , along with all of the other "allspelnoter" (notes for the "everyone plays" session) from our Spelmansstämma. However, I have managed to hit the strings for the first phrase in such a way that it actually sounds like it is supposed to sound. It is a start...
I had meant to do uni work today, even though I normally have Friday's off. It didn't happen. I did do some laundry, some general tidying up, made more of the cloth bags to protect the Frostheim ceramics, and spent three hours shoveling snow, in three different sessions, two of 45 minutes each, and the third after David arrived to drive the tractor. Clearly while we had plenty of snow-dunes from last night's wind with some new snow, it wasn't as wet and heavy as two weeks ago when we also needed to use the tractor to clear snow, since on that occasion it took both of us working, he with the tractor and me with a shovel, three hours to clear both driveways and the parking area between, and this time it took only 1.5 hours, and I spent most of that time working on the paths to the sheds, rather than the driving areas (and last time we didn't do the shed paths on the same occasion). However, while today was easier than a couple of weeks ago, my favourite was last week, when we had only 3 to 5 cm of such light fluffy snow I was able to push the shovel from one end of the driveway to the other before needing to empty it, and working on my own managed to do both driveways and the parking area between in only 40 minutes...
I hope I will work some tomorrow, but since David and I want to stop by the Julmarknad in Gammelstad and I will probably do some baking for Sunday's birthday party, I am not certain how much I will manage...