The drumming tradition of Norway, and the missing link... a new start?

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Books & sheet music that informed the project
The drum gallery
Samslag / Håkon Skjæret
Sundvors manuskripter/ Åsmund Soldal
"opplæring"
noen workshopper
Litt om bruk in kontekst

An artistic research project in the Craftsmanship project by Kjell Tore Innervik.

Revitalizing the tradition. For, and with a new generations of Heritage drummers.

A main goal has been to suggest a way to play traditional "Hardingfele slåtter" on the drum.

Strategies for exploring the Norwegian Heritage drumming has had several starting points

The music’s

Heritage music from the musical line of Håkon Høgemo

Heritage music from the musical line of Eirik Sundvor

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Reference drumming projects in the civil roam, rooted in military drumming traditions from around the western world. Research of old manuscripts and concepts of drumming up to modern times

Working within these musical formats

Hardanger fiddle and Slåttetromme: Høgemo and Innervik

Many "Slåttetrommer" with The heritage drummers of Norway

Slåttetromme solo

The Drum in contexts as ceremonies in weddings, funerals, other important events in life and for fun

Drumming for traditional dance

KEY WORDS for developing the drumming

· The “bordun” and the melody

· The "dåm"

· The Norwegian traditional music as heritage from the Hardanger fiddle

· The Hardangerfiddels bowing patterns as a part of the heritage

· "Trommeslåtter"

· The Norwegian rudiments, such a thing?

· "Stastrommen"

· Open drumming

· Right hand up notation as in Scotland

· Studying playing techniques and music on traditional drums

· Learning the traditional music by "tradering" from the Hardanger fiddle

· Regular playing with the fiddle master as reference and musical in-depth studying

· Experiencing the context

The reading list/reference list has been in 3 parts

Traditional music of Norway

Drumming references

About Craftsmanship

Artistic output

A recording at NYE Nord, Autumn 2024

Documentation recordings can be found on the Research catalogue from concerts and presentations during the project

Participation as a central part of the project design. "US" was the goal.

A new generation of skilled drummers has been exposed to the tradition and taken part in the development of this. To be continued...

The traditional music scene has been exposed to heritage drummers.

Two master students with projects in the roam of Craftsmanship

"Samslag" a Master project by Håkon Skjæret

"Sundvors manuskripter og mer": A Master project by Åsmund Soldal

The drum and music has been used with the Oslo Sinfonietta in two new pieces in the period.

New piece by Håkon Thelin, For all ears festival

New piece by Christian Eggen, For the Ultima festival

A project with Barrokkanerne and Clare Salaman as a pilot to this project

· Solo drumming in the tradition of Johannes and Eirik Sundvor.

· Visit Noregs Tamburlag for more info about the Sundvors.

· Additional outputs:
During this project the original manuscripts by Johannes Sundvor has been handed over to the National Library

· The taburlauget has had a major gathering in Trondheim

· Many young drummers has learned to perform slåtter

· The music has been presented to many people in concerts, competitions and musical gatherings as well as in traditional contexts as wedding and for with dance.

The study material is made available on this web page for all interested persons.

For the Drumming strands of the project we have:

Developed a way of scoring for drum

Made scores for the slåtter after Håkon Høgemo

Made scores for the reference material from around the world

Recordings of the reference material is to be made in field days in Oslo 2024.

Short instructions made by Innervik is to be found on line

"Bones" are left purposely for new generations.