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Unlike the violin, the hardingfele is a transposing instrument, meaning sheet music for the hardingfele is written in a key other than the one where the instrument sounds when it plays that music. Specifically, the hardingfele is a D instrument, [3] meaning that the hardingfele 's written C corresponds to D on a non-transposing instrument, such ...
With Arve Moen Bergset, Bjørn Ole Rasch and Steinar Ofsdal, she is a member of the folk music group Bukkene Bruse. [ 1 ] Lien is part of the fiddle ensemble String Sisters , which formed in 2000 and consists of six string players from different countries, who released their début album Live in 2007.
Jorun Marie Rypdal Kvernberg (born 10 July 1979) is a Norwegian traditional musician (hardingfele, violin, vocals) and composer, known from a series of recordings.She is the daughter of traditional musicians Liv Rypdal Kvernberg and Torbjørn Kvernberg, and the sister of classical musician Kari Kvernberg Dajani [1] and jazz violinist Ola Kvernberg, and granddaughter of the fiddler and ...
Hytta has been training hardingfele with Einar Løndal (1914–2005) and Knut Buen (b. 1948) among others. She writes and arranges new music at the intersection of Traditional folk music, Contemporary classical music and other modal traditional folk music traditions. Her main project next to playing solo fiddle is in the trio Slagr, initiated ...
Telemarkfestivalen 2007 presented the world artist and folk musician Annbjørg Lien as this year's festival composer. Here Lien performed together with an international folk music string quartet comprising Annbjørg Lien (hardingfele and fiddle), Bruce Molsky (fiddle & vocals), Christine Hanson (cello) and Mikael Marin (viola), a completely originally written commission, Waltz With Me, based ...
Maurseth picked up the fiddle at the age seven, and studied with Knut Hamre. In addition to studies at the University of Bergen (minor in art history) she attended the Ole Bull Academy at Voss in the period 2004–06. [1] She immersed herself in the baroque instrument viola d'amore next to her main instrument Hardanger fiddle.
No matter how many times you listen to the song, the epic fiddle solos in “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” will never get old. This twangy, foot-stomping classic is the perfect addition to ...
The Hardanger fiddle books were published between 1958 and 1981. The editors were all traditional fiddlers who were well acquainted with the music in question. The three of them, Arne Bjørndal, Truls Ørpen and Eivind Groven, had all collected fiddle tunes in their areas, and were now asked to put their collections into print. As work ...