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Flenmo Skanklat by Ragnar Schelen
« on: July 19, 2020, 08:41:20 AM »

https://soundcloud.com/user-725891401/flenmo-skanklat

Played in D on my 4th button start Maestro.

I found this tricky to get in my head and fingers.

No chords/basses - that's for next week.

I'm attaching the dots as well.

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Re: Flenmo Skanklat by Ragnar Schelen
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2020, 08:50:15 AM »

https://soundcloud.com/user-725891401/flenmo-skanklat
Played in D on my 4th button start Maestro.
I found this tricky to get in my head and fingers.
No chords/basses - that's for next week.
I'm attaching the dots as well.

Thoughtful piece, very sensitively played.
Where's it from?
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Re: Flenmo Skanklat by Ragnar Schelen
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2020, 09:26:24 AM »

https://soundcloud.com/user-725891401/flenmo-skanklat
Played in D on my 4th button start Maestro.
I found this tricky to get in my head and fingers.
No chords/basses - that's for next week.
I'm attaching the dots as well.

Thoughtful piece, very sensitively played.
Where's it from?

It was referred to in another thread here, and then I posted another link referring to the seat being used by the young lady playing it.
It's Swedish, written for violin I think in 1949.  Not sure but I think the title is a place name (Flenmo) and a type of tune (Skanklat).
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Re: Flenmo Skanklat by Ragnar Schelen
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2020, 10:59:21 AM »

https://soundcloud.com/user-725891401/flenmo-skanklat
Played in D on my 4th button start Maestro.
I found this tricky to get in my head and fingers.
No chords/basses - that's for next week.
I'm attaching the dots as well.

Thoughtful piece, very sensitively played.
Where's it from?

It was referred to in another thread here, and then I posted another link referring to the seat being used by the young lady playing it.
It's Swedish, written for violin I think in 1949.  Not sure but I think the title is a place name (Flenmo) and a type of tune (Skanklat).

Ah! Got it.
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Re: Flenmo Skanklat by Ragnar Schelen
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2020, 02:03:06 PM »

I called up an old friend in Sweden with questions about this tune.  She told me that Flenmo is a little place a few kilometers north of the railway town of Flen, in Södermanland county, southern Sweden.  I asked her what was there and she said "Some fields, I think . . . ".  Skänklåt tunes are played when the musicians pass the hat around.  Henrik Norbeck brilliantly calls them "I want to get paid"-tunes. There are several on JC's tunefinder, and if you search the web on the word plenty of others come up in various forms. 

I like tunes that do a job.  That whole planxty tribute thing is all well and good, but here is a whole tune-type dedicated to invoicing the listeners.  Brilliant!
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Re: Flenmo Skanklat by Ragnar Schelen
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2020, 03:03:35 PM »

Skänklåtar are tunes for "giving" or presenting.  Celebrations such as weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and such would have them played for presenting gifts, meal courses, toasts and so on.  As to meter and tempo, they're related to the gånglåt or "walking tune".

 Giving the fiddlers their due is a bit more than passing the hat in these instances.  And for Anahata, here's a nice version with cello:

https://youtu.be/DyKXomJUF3E

This arrangement (no chording) is right in the  "double fiddle" style of "stämman" (voice/melody) and "annan stämman" (other voice/melody).  Very egalitarian.
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Re: Flenmo Skanklat by Ragnar Schelen
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2020, 08:22:29 PM »

And for Anahata, here's a nice version with cello:

https://youtu.be/DyKXomJUF3E


Thank you for that!

Interesting - we had versions in both C and D, and now that one's in G!
I'm half way through transcribing the harmony part posted earlier into ABC and transposed back to key of D. I was thinking of concertina and melodeon, but cello is always a possibility...
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Re: Flenmo Skanklat by Ragnar Schelen
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2020, 08:43:34 PM »

And for Anahata, here's a nice version with cello:

https://youtu.be/DyKXomJUF3E


Thank you for that!

Interesting - we had versions in both C and D, and now that one's in G!
I'm half way through transcribing the harmony part posted earlier into ABC and transposed back to key of D. I was thinking of concertina and melodeon, but cello is always a possibility...

Cellist is an ex-pat Brit, I think.
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Re: Flenmo Skanklat by Ragnar Schelen
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2020, 08:54:26 PM »

Here's my transcription from yet another source already in D . . . .

X: 1
T:Flenmo Skanklat (With Harmony)
T:(Collection Tune from Flenmo)
A:Sweden
C:"The Shoemaker" Ragnar Schelen
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:1/2=60
K:D
V:1
"D"DF/A/ d>e|"D"(d/c/)d/e/ f!uppermordent!e|"G"dG (G/B/)(B/G/)|"A7"A3A|"G"G>B!uppermordent! BA/G/|"D"FA d!uppermordent!f|
V:2
D2(F/E/)F/A/|[FA]>A d!uppermordent!c|[DB]2 B,G,/B,/|A,>B, CD|[B,D]2 G,/B,/D/B,/|A,D F!uppermordent!D|
V:1
"A7"eA (A/c/)e/c/|"D"dA/G/ (F/E/)D|"D"DF/A/ d>e|"D"(d/c/)d/e/ f!uppermordent!e|"G"dG (G/B/)(B/G/)|"A7"A3A|
V:2
CE A[GA]|FD (D/E/)F/G/|(A/B/)A/G/ [FA][GA]|F/E/F/G/ A^A|[DB]2B,G,/B,/|(A,/^G,/)A,/B,/ (C/B,/)C/D/|
V:1
"G"G>B!uppermordent! BA/G/|"D"FA d!uppermordent!f|"A7"eA (A/c/)e/c/|"D"[F4d4]:|]|:"D"a2 (a/b/)a/g/|!uppermordent!fe/f/ dA/F/|
V:2
D>G!uppermordent! GF/E/|DF G/F/E|C/A,/C/E/ A[GA]| [FA]4:|[|:[DAf]2 (f/g/)f/e/|dA FD|
V:1
"G"G2 !uppermordent!BA/B/|"A7"GF !uppermordent!ED|"A7"C>E Ac|"A7"ed c!uppermordent!B|"D"Aa (a/b/)a/g/|"D"f3A|
V:2
[DB,]2[G,D][G,D]|E!lowermordent!D CB,|A,>A, (C/E/)G/c/|c!lowermordent!B AG|F2(F/G/)F/E/|D2(D/F/)A/d/|
V:1
"D"a2 (a/b/)a/g/|"D"!uppermordent!fe/f/ dA/F/|"G"G2 !uppermordent!BA/B/|"A7"G!uppermordent!F E!uppermordent!D|"A7"C>E Ac|"A7"ed c!uppermordent!B|
V:2
[Af]2(f/g/)f/e/|dA FE/D/|[B,D]2 [G,D][G,D]|E!uppermordent!D C!uppermordent!B,|A,2 (G/F/)E/D/|(C!uppermordent!B) AG|
V:1
"A7"Aa (A/c/)e/c/|"D"[Fd]4:|]
V:2
G/F/E/D/ C/A,/C/E/|[DA]4:|]
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