Contemporary Danish folk dance music

Kjeld's Hambo
Niels Mejlhede Jensen, Bøgeløvsvej 4, 2830 Virum, Denmark. e-mail (web master)

Modern tune used for folk dancing in Denmark 1999 arranged with improvisations

Link to index to other dances.
Link to introduction page to contemporary folk dance music.

CONTENTS: (remember: you can use Ctrl Home in usual browsers to get to the top of this page, to the links here)


Photo of Kjeld

Photo of the composer: Kjeld Brunbech. Click the photo to see Kjeld and his active group.
 

Music description:

The melody can be heard in midi on computer piano in my tempo (if you have a sound card). (I have not played the tunes here with the "drive" I want for dance music).
The music notes of 6 staves are written as 2 scores of 3 staves each on 2 A4 pages.
The 6 staves:
 
1 melody the new dancing melody
. chord
text		 Midi metronome = 130 simple (folk music) chords decided by the composer;
these chords are used to make the other parts or voices in triad harmony;
there should be no tension from dissonance anywhere including in octave
2 A (Above), parallel part nearest above in third or little more above
3 B (Below), parallel part nearest below in third or little more below
4 C1 C parts are made from A and B parts, and so they are two parts to the melody
5 C2 C2 is less simple than C1
6 ns simple part with the basic dance rhythm ("motor part")

Use also octave, up and down.
Where wanted, notes can be changed according to the principles (use a colour pencil), e.g. to improve the B part  with some notes from A.
The music is aimed at dancing, so part of the orchestra can be the underlying "motor" when another instrument group is playing its "solo" part (improvisation) as one of the many repetitions.
The double bass may play its usual notes, because of its low pitch.

It is better to choose a more simple part and play it well.
 

Accordion: beats per bar: 1+1, on beat 1 and beat 3
(See description for accordion for the hambo dance 16)
 

Music scores:

The music score consists of 2 pages: page left and page right. They are given on separate pages with links on the top of this page (use Ctrl Home to go to the top). The links are repeated here:
(c1, c2), (b1, b2)
When you click a link the music note sheet will (should) open as a new page on top of this main page, so that you can easily return to this main page. And you can easily open 2 windows of note pages to have both the left and right page in smaller windows, the right below the left.

(Help coming back from that note sheet: CLICK the note sheet to come back to this page, or just close the note window.
Remember: the note sheet opens in a new separate window, and that may cover the whole screen. The back button in the tools bar does probably not work because the window is new, with no history. All you see on the page are notes because I have placed no link back here for not disturbing easy submitting to the printer. Close the note window with a click at the top or with Alt F4, or minimize or reduce the window, or ..., and you are back to the main page that was there behind all the time).
 

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