Tune of the Week for May 28, 2012

Låt i veckan för maj 28, 2012

Anders & Maria Larsson of the Swedish band Svanevit will be guests at Fiddle Club on Monday, June 4 at 7 pm in Room E124 — Old Town School East (4545 Lincoln). Click here to register ($15 for a single meeting).

Anders & Maria Larson
Anders & Maria Larson with Svanevit

Åleätarns vals (The Eel-Eaters Waltz)


This tune, from their album Rikedom och gåvor (Wealth and Gifts), is actually two waltzes. The first is played on bagpipes. The second waltz starts when the fiddle joins and is played in D, then raised an octave, and finally changed to the key of G. Both the album and the tune honor John Enninger, from Skåne in southern Sweden. A fiddler, writer and tune collector, Enninger (who died in 1908) played his best after “partaking of some schnapps and about half a yard of boiled eel!”

X:22
T:Aleätarns vals (Eel Eater’s Waltz)
M:3/4
L:1/8
S:Svanevit
K:D
“bagpipes-3 times through”DE{F}D2 F2 | E2 {FED}EF E2 | EFFG GE | A2AF D2 ::
B2GF GB | A2FD FA | B2GF GB | A2FD FA | GA/G/ EF GB |1 AC D4 :|2 AC D2 |:
“fiddle and bagpipes”
DF | A4 FA | G4 EG | F2A2 E2 | DCDE FG |
A4 FA | G4 EG | FGAG FE | D4 ::
{E}D2 | D2F2 D2 | AGAB A2 | D2F2 D2 | EDEF E2 |
D2F2 D2 | AGAB A2 | D2FA GE | D4 ::
df | a4 fa | g4 eg | f2a2 e2 | dcde fg |
a4 fa | g4 eg | fgag fe | d4 ::
{e}d2 | d2f2 d2 | agab a2 | d2f2 d2 | edef e2 |
d2f2 d2 | agab a2 | d2fa ge | d4 ::
K:G
“3 times through”GB | d4 Bd | c4 Ac | B2d2 A2 | GFGA Bc |
d4 Bd | c4Ac | Bcdc BA | G4 ::
{A}G2 | G2B2 G2 | dcde d2 | G2B2 G2 | AGAB A2 |
G2B2 G2 | dcde d2 | G2Bd cA | G4 :|

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