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
LENKE KOMMER / Åsmund Soldal
"opplæring"
noen workshopper
Litt om bruk in kontekst

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

Revitalising the tradition. For and with a new generations of Herritage drummers.

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

Strategies for exploring the Norwegian Herritage drumming has had several startingpoints

The musics

Herritage music from the musical line of Håkon Høgemo

Herritage music from the musical line of Eirik Sundvor

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Refference drumming projects in the civil roam, rooted in military drumming traditions from around the western world. Reseach of old manuscripts and conceptes of drumming up to modern times

Working within these musical formats

Hardanger fiddle and Slåttetromme: Høgemo and Innervik

Many "Slåttetrommer" with The herritage drummers of Norway

Slåttetromme solo

The Drum in contexts as seremonies 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 Norvegian traditional music as herritaged from the Hardanger fiddle
The Hardangerfiddels bowing patterns as a part of the herritage
"Trommeslåtter"
The Norwegian rudiments, such a thing?
"Stastrommen"
Open drumming
Right hand upp 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 fiddlemaster as refferance and musical indapth studying
Joining the context

The readinglist/referance list as been in 3 parts

Traditionel music of Norway

Drumming refferences

About Craftmanship

Artistic output

A recoridng at NYE Nord, Autum 2024

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

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

A new generation of skilled drummes 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 herritage drummers.

Two master students with projects in the roam of Craftmanship

"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.