Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan.
This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks.
Also known as The Skräddar Quadrille, Skräddarkadrilj, The Tailor's Quadrille.
X: 1
T: Skraddar Quadrille, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Gmaj
|: gf |\
g2 d2 dedc | B2 G2 G2 g2 | eceg fdfg | agfe degf |
g2 d2 dedc | B2 G2 G2 g2 | eceg fdfa | g2 gf g2 :|
K: DMaj
|: (3efg |\
a2 a2 abag | f2 f2 fgfe | d2 d2 c2 cc | d2 d2 defg |
a2 a2 abag | f2 f2 fgfe | d2 d2 c2 cc | d4 d2 :|
K: GMaj
|: dB |\
G2 G2 GBdB | G2 G2 GBdB | c2 ec B2 dB | AGFG AAdB |
G2 G2 GBdB | G2 G2 GBdB | c2 ec AFFF | G4 G2 :|
|: dc | B2 d2 dedc | B2 d2 d2 B2 | c3 (3d/c/B/ c2 B2 | A6 ^cc |
d3 d e2 f2 | g2 g2 agfe | d2 d<c BcAB | G6 :|
Disscussion: Anybody know this tune's name?
# Posted on July 24th 2008 by greybeardd
~ /discussions/display/18528
You may have see a Swedish gentleman on YouTube playing this tune on one of those mechanically amplified / horn fiddle dealies...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMvdtRaulG4
It starts off like this ~
X:1
T: unknown (Swedish?)
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|: gf |\
g2 d2 dedc | B2 G2 G2 g2 | eceg fdfa | gaba gfef |
g2 d2 dedc | B2 G2 G2 g2 | eceg fdfa | g2 .gg .gz :|
Anyone have a clue what it could be? (no joy on tune finder)
Cheers!
# Posted on July 24th 2008 by greybeardd
http://www.thesession.org/members/display/46929
Hi greybeardd - great clip!
I think that I've heard 'this' before - can't remember where. 'It' come across to me rather like Northumbrian rant tunes (hornpipe metre and structure, but played undotted). ~ both tunes are Swedish ~ specifically from the island of Gotland. If this is the case, you'll probably find them on this site ...
http://www.gotlandstoner.se/web/
... which has masses of Gotland tunes in abc, gif and midi formats. The only difficulty is that everthing there is in Swedish, and there is no translation!
I wish you you well with your quest. If you succeed, please post the abc(s).
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by Mix O'Lydian
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
There, it was a request, maybe Kenny and others (including slainte), will forgive me this additional Swedish number... "Burp!" Sorry, something I ate...
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
Skräddarkadrilj ~ the 2/4 option for notating this
~ but it would pose problems... It is better in 4/4...
T: Skräddarkadrilj
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
R: Kadrilj
K: GMaj
|: g/f/ |\
gd d/e/d/c/ | BG Gg | e/c/e/g/ f/d/f/g/ | a/g/f/e/ d/e/g/f/ |
gd d/e/d/c/ | BG Gg | e/c/e/g/ f/d/f/a/ | gg/f/ g :| ~
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
Toot toot & >
In character its definitions would rhythmically be 2/2 ~ two beats to a measure. But, Irish reels, also bearing that similarity, are also notated as 4/4, grouping the notes in a way that clearly shows the duple character of the measure ~ | eceg fdfg | agfe degf | ~ ...
I could see giving this one a little more swing, in a jaunty barndance sort of way...
T: Skräddarkadrilj
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: Kadrilj
K: GMaj
|: g>f |\
g2 d2 d>ed>c | B2 G2 G2 g2 | e>ce>g f>df>g | a>gf>e d>eg>f |
g2 d2 d>ed>c | B2 G2 G2 g2 | e>ce>g f>df>a | g2 g>f g2 :|
K: DMaj
|: (3efg |\ ~
The kind of steps you often find with these quadrilles aren't far removed from the usual for such an approach to rhythm, as with a hornpipe or barndance/schottische ~ hop-1-2-3... But simple running steps are also used...
I wonder if I can get my hands on a dance description? I love quadrilles, from Jamaica to South Africa and beyond, wherever they hail from...
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
"Skräddarkadrilj" ~ Another transcription for comparison ~ ABCs, dots & midi ~
http://www.gotlandstoner.se/web/
http://www.gotlandstoner.se/web/index/kadrilj.html
http://www.gotlandstoner.se/web/632.html
X: 632
T: Skräddarkadrilj
S: Första kadriljen på Gotland [enligt tradition, uppt. efter »Florsen» i Burs.
Z: 18 dec 2003, Clara
M: C
L: 1/8
R: Kadrilj
K: G
|: gf |\
g2 d2 dedc | B2 G2 G3 g | e2 eg f2 fg | agfe d2 gf |
g2 d2 dedc | B2 G2 G3 g | e2 eg f2 fa | g6 :|
K:D
|: fg |\
a4 abag | f4 fgfe | d2 d2 c2 c2 | d2 d2 defg |
a4 abag | f4 fgfe | d2 d2 c2 c2 | d6 :|
K:G
|: dB |\
G2 G2 GBdB | G2 G2 GBdB | c2 ec B2 dB | AGFG A2 dB |
G2 G2 GBdB | G2 G2 GBdB | c2 ec D2 FA | G6:|
|: dc |\
B3 d dedc | B3 d dedc | c2 B2 c2 B2 | A3 d d4 |
d4 e2 f2 | g4 agfe | d2 c2 BcAB | G6 :|
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
One 'greybeard', if predominantly white, to another...
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
The guy's fiddle wouldn't have looked out of place in an early Surrealist exhibition...
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by nicholas
yeah, I love it. I've seen and heard a few of them and always longed to have one myself. Some of them are quite heavy...
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
More likely it's "The Tailor's Quadrille" from the Swedish "skräddare". I don't know of any place in Sweden or Gotland called "Skräddar", though it always amused to find sign posts to Roma when I visited Gotland. By the way, the fiddler is Anders Schilling.
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by LongNote
Nice one Longnote, thanks for the corrections and clarification...
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
"The Tailor's (skräddare) Quadrille"
Many of the tunes and dances I'd had the pleasure of, from the lands North of here, were geographic in name... I should have checked the dictionary first.
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
Anders Schillng ~ the fiddler
Notes from U-Tube ~
Anders Schillng plays his unique mechanically amplified fiddle ín a medevial ruin in Visby Gotland. The clip is from the DVD Folkmusiksommar på Gotland available from
http://www.fardelin.se/
Again thanks LongNote, I should have added the fiddler's details from the start. I was cutting and pasting and missed that. I am more semi-conscious than usual this time of year.
I'd love to have that DVD in hand...
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
"Skräddarkadrilj" / "The Tailor's Quadrille"
That's ringing more bells as I remember a quadrille that emulated the work of the tailor or a seamstress, along the lines of 'thread-the-needle', etc... I'll have to see if I can get my hands on the dance description to check it out... Any help there is welcome too...
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan
Stroh fiddle
is one of the names for these beasts ... they still make them!
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by spindizzy
Yes! ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroh_violin
Not belonging to U-Tube, if someone would offer this link in the comments to that lovely video of Anders Schillng's playing this tune, others who come across it might find it useful...
# Posted on July 25th 2008 by ceolachan