Wednesday, 11. October 2006, 13:03:51
Today we learned a lot of folk, classic and pop music of sweden.
Folk musicinstrumentsBronze Horn
Birch Bark Horns in the south
Cow Horns in the north
Hurdy Gurdy -
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drehleier--These melodies with these instruments were very sad and slow.
violin and fiddle - 4 sides
key fiddle -
http://www.richard-york.co.uk/past/rtstrings2.html#keyfiddlenorwayian violin - 8 sides, 4 sides for playing and 4 sides for resonance
clog violin - they used the old big woodshoes to make a violin (for poor people)
singstylesLoud and high singing - over the mountains, like an sms between young people. The young people in an age of 12-14 years had to go with sheeps in the mountain for 2 weeks and this was the only way to communicate. And often it would used to calling the cows.
YOLK - the oldest singing style, less lyriks and more sounds for important events. oloa|oloa|oloa
diddeling - sing like an instrument, the poor man music. dimmdaduledaidubbedudalai...
lifestyleevery town has their own tradition. This includes the music, dances and kostyms.
Modern Folkmusic singerÅsa Jinder
Marie Boine - Samen Music (modern Yolk)
Classic music1730 Gustav the third founded the music academy and built opera houses. Therefore he needed a good componist.
He sent out some men who should find a good componist. They went to germany!
And they found:
Johann H. Roman - the first "swedish" componist

other classic nordic componists:
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger - Sweden
H.C.Lumbye - Denmark
C.Nielson - Denmark
J.Sibelius - Finland --> Finlandia: the description of the finnish soul
Eduard Grieg - Norway
Pop and modern musicThe third biggest income of sweden is the music, because here are the most famous composer. The most famous componist is MAX MARTIN -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin some artists of pop musicABBA, Carola (Stranger - every swedish people know the lyrik!), Sarek, Fame, Ace of Base (bad party), Thomas Leden, Laleh (silent), Anna Ternheim (like french chansons), Melody Club (party), Bob Hund, Backyard Babies, Cardigans, The Hives, In Flames, Katatonia, Opeth, Mando Diao, Millencolin, Mustasch, Paatos, Roxette, The Hellacopters, The Sounds, bo kasper orchester, the real group (songs without instruments)
http://www.realgroup.se , Björn Skits (the swedish version of Wolfgang Petry), Eric Gadic, Robyn (Techno), Christian Walz, Lisa Nilsson, Moneybrother
AND Lars Winnerbäck from LINKÖPING
EXTRA:the pippi longstrump song in swedish with the englich translation from today:
http://www.kariedoo.de/sounds/PippiLangstromp.wavHe sang this:

Thank you.