The Session: Tunes - Springar (slip jig)

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Source: Folque
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# Posted on October 15th 2004 by gian marco

Is it Norwegian?

Springar is a Norwegian dance, so is it Norwegian?

# Posted on October 15th 2004 by Gard

Springar is a type of dance and the music played for it. Do you have more of the title for this one?

# Posted on October 15th 2004 by ceolachan

Also, they are usually 3/4 time if memory serves me right.

http://www.hf.uio.no/imt/om_imt/nfs/feleverk.html

# Posted on October 15th 2004 by ceolachan

http://www.hf.uio.no/imt/om_imt/nfs/felenett/traditio.html

http://www.hf.uio.no/imt/om_imt/nfs/felenett/traditio/thehardi/thedanci/springar.html

# Posted on October 15th 2004 by ceolachan

Yes it's a norwegian dance.
I don't know the title.
Springars whould be written in 3/4,
but this one works better in 9/8.

# Posted on October 15th 2004 by gian marco

There are a lot of Springars without the 'from' (a place) or 'by' or 'for' (a person) attached to them, basically 'gan ainms'. There seems to be more of that in Norway percentage wise than in the Celtic realms. It is a lovely air however you take it. I'll do some looking and see if I can come up with something more in the way of a name for it... There's one for your homework Gard! Let's see who can come up with the works first, and a notation in the 3/4 form too. The gauntlet is cast and you have the definite advantage - being in lovely Norway and playing the Hardangfele...

# Posted on October 17th 2004 by ceolachan

Springar is not as waltz in rythm. When you "cout" it, it shall be as ONE TWOO TREE, and not like waltz ONE TWO THREE. Or Where does it come from? I play a springar with the name Springar frå Iveland. Iveland is a place, and "frå" is the word for "from".
I'll learn it and play it to Vidar Lande,one of Norways best fiddlers, he sure knows it.

# Posted on October 18th 2004 by Gard

Norwegian folk dances are known for their intricate rhythms and numerous spins and turns. The springar is a lively couple dance found in several regions of southern Norway. Norway is a nation of mountains and valleys, separating the country into culturally distinctive regions. These differences can be so great that a fiddler, or spelemann, from one region often cannnot (or will not) play for dancers from another. Although all springars have three beats per measure, the length and emphasis of these beats varies considerably in each of the valleys presented on this recording: Valdres, Telemark, and Hallingdal. Because of these differences, and due to the complexity of the music, the fiddler taps out the beat for the dancers while playing. This foot tapping, which is an integral part of the music, is almost a dance in itself, necessitating that the fiddler play sitting down. To make the rhythm more accessible to those of us learning outside of Norway, I have strived to make the dance beats clear and audible in this recording. For beginners especially, tracks marked with a cross (+) have added foot tapping which can be amplified in the left channel.

# Posted on October 18th 2004 by gian marco

see http://vms.cc.wmich.edu/~code/karin/nsd_dance.html

# Posted on October 18th 2004 by gian marco

Springar frå Valdres?

I was about to say nice description GM, but then discovered that it was a "quote" from the link above. What still is unclear is whether that is the recording you've transcribed this springar from? Can you confirm that, or if you have another commercial recording can you list it here and any specifics. If it is the one the link leads to, unless you mean the third track, the recording at the link, "Norsk Spring Dance", does have names for all other Springars... If it is the third one, at the least you could call it I've given in the header - Springar from Valdres...

# Posted on October 19th 2004 by ceolachan

Springars from Telemark has very much of that ONE TWOO THREE, but Setesdal is more like waltz, ONE TWO THREE. We often have a microphone with our feet ehen we play, so how you do all that with your feet, is complicated. I just heard that a "telemarking" had buyed new boots only for using when he was playing. He paid 7000kr (700 puond)! I'll play it today for Hilde Strømsnes, a good player, but she isn't one of the best, she comes from Hordaland, and when she lived there she had a teacher in hardingerfiddle from Setesdal, I think. If you want me to translate a name you've made over to Norwegain, I can!

# Posted on October 19th 2004 by Gard

Yow! - 700 quid for a pair of boots, OUCH! Do they make it so he can walk on water?

# Posted on October 19th 2004 by ceolachan

I have transcribed that tune from the first album (1974) of the band "Folque"
http://www.norskfolke.museum.no/prosjekt/mogb/fq/engelsk/engelsk.htm

# Posted on October 19th 2004 by gian marco

ceolachan> I don't think he used his concert boots to walk in woods!
Hilde Strømsnes couldn't say the name of that tune, but she said it looked like if it was from "regular-fiddle-places" in Østerdalen or a place arond there.

# Posted on October 20th 2004 by Gard

Well Nord, I haven't had much luck tracing it up either, but I'll keep trying... I'd really like to see a picture of those boots though.

Thanks for the link GM...

# Posted on October 20th 2004 by ceolachan

Do you play it with any strokes? Who did you learn it from?

# Posted on October 21st 2004 by Gard

What abou just to call it "Springar frå Østerdalen" or in English "Springar from Østerdalen". Are you sure it isn't a SPRINGLEIK?

# Posted on October 22nd 2004 by Gard

Yeah, I'm going to play with a regular fiddle player saturday, I think he comes from the east of Norway, I'll ask him

# Posted on October 22nd 2004 by Gard

I like your passion Nord... I'm sadly out of the swing of playing things from the North, or dancing to them, though they sing to me still, call to my heart and my feet, but not 700 quid's worth... I'm still waiting for those pictures. Are there gold caps on the toes? ;-)

# Posted on October 22nd 2004 by ceolachan

Sorry, but I havent got any pics :-)
There are no gold on them. But they're just made with different sound eatch shoe, and different sound different places!
Ehh, sorry my English, but what does PASSION mean?

# Posted on October 22nd 2004 by Gard

Hey, has everyone forgot this tune now :-(

# Posted on October 26th 2004 by Gard

Springleik by Torvald Tronskår.
Torvald Tronsgård (1892-1986). Fiddler (regular fiddle) from Folldal.
I think Folldal is in North-Østerdal.

# Posted on November 2nd 2004 by Gard