modern / trad. Volume 3 (with CD)

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modern / trad. – New dance tunes

“Tradition is the passing on of the fire and not the worship of ashes.” (Gustav Mahler)

After the ‘Schnurrpfeiffereyen’ and ‘Ein gutter nerrisch Tantz’ by Martina Sirtl, the series ‘modern / trad. – neue Tanzmelodien’ a new, trend-setting series for the folk dance scene has been published by us.

Schottisch, Waltz, Mazurka, Polka are only some of the most common couple dances, which are widespread in many parts of Europe and for which we publish new melodies with this series.

Only through constant change and renewal does a dance festival (or bal folk) remain as good as it once was. Dance music has evolved creatively since the folk revival of the last decades, not only in France, Ireland or Scandinavia. In German-speaking countries, too, there has been a colorful music and dance scene for some years now, inspired by the traditional music of our neighboring countries and equally rooted in our own musical past.

The in modern/trad. The newly composed dance pieces with a view over the edge of the plate are thus in the best tradition, are in the best sense ‘new German folk dance music’!

And dance music should go to the legs, should not be cerebral, should sound light and yet not banal. When selecting the melodies, great importance was therefore attached to good playability and the fun of making music together!

Band: 3 Cercles and Bourrée

Johannes Mayr and Christoph Pelgen have compiled the third volume from numerous submissions. This time there are beautiful, rousing (and of course again only newly composed) cercles (6/8) and bourrées. These melodies – 34 Cercles & 34 Bourrées – were also composed by musicians who are well-known and respected in the scene.

The proven concept of the two previously published volumes has been adopted.

The dances are suitable for the usual musical instruments and here too, care has been taken to ensure that in most cases they can be played on drone instruments such as bagpipes or hurdy-gurdy (in G/C tuning) in terms of key and range.

The book is accompanied by an excellent CD recorded by the Duo Cassard on which all the melodies can be heard.

Here you can find a list with all melodies published in this series so far

The two editors, Johannes Mayr and Christoph Pelgen, have been on the road for years with various ensembles (La Marmotte, Hölderlin Express, Adaro, DÁN, Estampie) on German dance and concert stages and as workshop leaders. As ‘Duo Cassard’ they have recorded all the melodies of the book on the accompanying CD in short sequences (1 to 2 passages) with bagpipes, accordion, keyed fiddle or mandola/mandolin.