Rasmus Storm's Notebook
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Rasmus Storm's Notebookis a handwritten collection of tunes written in the 1760s by Rasmus Storm. It is one of the earliest and most important collections ofDanish traditional music.Storm was a Danishfiddlerand dancing master (teacher) born in 1733 on the Island ofFunen.He was the son of an indentured peasant and worked as an assistant to a merchant. He began compiling his tunebook around 1760, but it is unknown where he learned the tunes. Among the tunes areminuets,polskas,bourrées,marchesandrigaudons– as well as otherwise unknown dance types such as "dantz" and "serras" and several folk melodies. Today the notebook is kept by the Danish Ethnological collection.[1][2][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^Koudal, Jens Henrik. Rasmus Storms nodebog. En fynsk tjenestekarls dansemelodier o. 1760. København 1987; 2. edition 1997.ISBN87-980636-7-7.
- ^http://www.andyhornby.net/Music/Rasmus%20Storm.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^Koudal, Jens Henrik. 1993. Ethnomusicology and Folk Music Research in Denmark. Yearbook for Traditional Music Vol. 25, Musical Processes in Asia and Oceania, pp. 100-125
- ^Nielsen, Bent Christian. Review of Koudal 1987 "Rasmus Storm's nodebog" Ethnomusicology. Vol. 32, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 482