Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on December 28th 2007 by phyreskull.
This tune has been added to 15 tunebooks.
Also known as Swedish Maskerade, The Swedish Masquerade.
X: 1
T: Swedish Masquerade
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
DEF2 | G4G3G | G4 ABc2 | B4B3B | B4c2e2 |
e2d2B2d2 | d2c2 A2F2 | G4 G3G | G4 :|
M:3/4
|: Bc | d2B2ge | d2B2ed | c2A2Ac | BA GA Bc |
d2B2 ge | d2B2ed | c2A2F2 | G4 :|
M:2/4
L:1/8
|: B>c | dB g>e | dB GB/c/ | dc Ac | ed BB/c/ |
dB g>e | dB GA/B/ | dc AF | G2 :|
Additional headers
This is not my own version of it, but I was surprised that it wasn't already here!
O:England
Z:Richard Robinson <URL:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/contact.html>;
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# Posted on December 28th 2007 by phyreskull
Ah! Here is it, that damned dance! My brain blows up every time I try to dance it. March, waltz and polka in one tune...
# Posted on December 29th 2007 by breqwas
Swedish Masquerade
Sweden - Is this a county in Ireland ????
# Posted on December 29th 2007 by ceili
Sweden is a country and not a county (believe it or not). This is one of my favourite dances, I must say... but one that I don't see very often.
# Posted on December 29th 2007 by phyreskull
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Notice the ??'s phreskull? I think 'ceili' is taking the 'P'
I love Swedish tunes and there are some good ones to be found on this sight but I would have avoided contributing this one, not only because it is not ITM but because it is neither a strong or interesting Swedish tune. My reaction was to think "Ugh!! whose put that on here?" I have a similar reaction when people place Morris dance tunes on the session without linking them to ITM as variations etc. This tune would accompany the dance that goes with it at many an English Ceilidh/Barn Dance but certainly NOT at an Irish session.
# Posted on December 30th 2007 by hetty
Danced in Ireland
Hi. This IS danced in Ireland.
# Posted on January 1st 2008 by Alancorsini
CDM
I think the Community Dance Manual say's it's a Danish tune even though it has Swidish in its title
# Posted on January 1st 2008 by Alancorsini
Danish Tune!
I'm not surprised at that, Alan, and wouldn't argue with you, I haven't set eyes on a CDM for years and in the days when I did I was usually looking at the tunes and not the dances. I often wonder about the social dance scene in Ireland and how many of the 'non-Irish' dances are done there that are regularly done here.
# Posted on January 1st 2008 by hetty
Swedish Masquerade
We learnt this from a bunch of Danish musicians in the 1980's and they explained that the title of this Danish dance (and tune) refers to the walk section where the dancers are poking fun at Swedish people as they promenade.
I believe that the third section is actually a hopsa, rather than a polka.
Swedish Masquerade is included in Freeland Barbour's "Footnotes. The Dances" a booklet giving the steps and figures to 17 dances current in the Scots ceilidh scene in 1992.
# Posted on January 4th 2008 by daveball
"poking fun at Swedish" ~ and the part where the near arms are joined and extended and you march forward in a haughty manner, almost with a jackboot kind of step, with your nose in the air, pretending to be aristocratic... ~ very strange!
# Posted on January 4th 2008 by ceolachan
It is all in fun, a 'masquerade', and some versions of it have many different dances woven in, including the walz, mazurka, polka, hopsa, schottische, rheinlander, pols ~ etc... If taken in the good humour intended, not serious, it can be a fun dance... If my memory is serving me reasonably, which is rare, I believe one version incorporated as many as seven different dances. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere here I had the sheets for it...
# Posted on January 4th 2008 by ceolachan
March ~ dance ~ march ~ dance ~ march ~ dance ~ march ~
NOTE: As I remember it, the short and longer versions, the first part given here, the march/marsch, was repeated between each dance, so you'd do the march, you'd do a dance, and then you were back to marching again before you did the next dance... The smallest version I'd ever come across had three dances, whereas the version here has only the march, the A-part, followed by two dances, the first in 3/4 and the second in 2/4.
I've also stumbled across this and have danced it in dear ol' Eire...
# Posted on January 4th 2008 by ceolachan
"Swedish Masquerade" ~ an American notation for it
http://www.folkdance.com/
http://www.folkdance.com/federation/dances/swedish_masquerade.pdf
# Posted on January 4th 2008 by ceolachan
"The Scotsman" ~ Published Date: 12 December 2007
http://living.scotsman.com/
http://living.scotsman.com/recommends/Best-ceilidh-dance.3589333.jp
Article: Best Ceilidh Dance by Liz Leydon
4 (of 5) THE SWEDISH MASQUERADE
One of the funniest ceilidh dances, this is actually a Danish folk dance, combining a haughty slow march, graceful waltz and maverick polka.
HOW TO DO IT: Often more fun to watch than dance, unless you really know what you are doing.
# Posted on January 4th 2008 by ceolachan