{"id":1358,"date":"2022-01-21T23:08:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=1358"},"modified":"2022-01-21T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:15:14","slug":"polska-efter-byss-kalle-32","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/polska-efter-byss-kalle-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Polska efter Byss-Kalle #32"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 This\u00a0Polska efter Byss-Kalle<\/strong> is currently one of the most popular tunes from the repertoire of the great nyckelharpa player of 200 years ago.\u00a0 Byss-Kalle was born Carl Ersson B\u00f6ssa in 1783, and died in 1847.<\/p>

\u00a0 He lived his whole life in the area around the town of \u00c4lvkarleby, in the province of Uppland.\u00a0 \u00a0His playing was inspiring, and many stories were told about his ability and perhaps his magical abilities with music.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0In the mid-20th century Uppland’s fiddlers’ association published a collection of 57 tunes that Byss-Kalle played, and this particular tune was #32, hence its common name.<\/p>

\u00a0 It is a 16th-note polska.\u00a0 \u00a0The Uppland dance that was done to this kind of tune has been lost, but it is often played for the southern Swedish dance called Sl\u00e4ngpolska<\/strong>.\u00a0 The sl\u00e4ngpolska dance from northern Sweden is a bit different.<\/p>

Here<\/a> is a YouTube video of a nyckelharpa and fiddle playing this tune.<\/p>

To the left is a photo of me and Per-Gustaf Jernberg playing at the Byss-Kalle monument in \u00c4lvkarleby.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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On the left you can see a video of me playing the polska on the fiddle, and on the right I am playing it on the nyckelharpa.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 This\u00a0Polska efter Byss-Kalle is currently one of the most popular tunes from the repertoire of the great nyckelharpa player of 200 years ago.\u00a0 Byss-Kalle was born Carl Ersson B\u00f6ssa in 1783, and died in 1847. \u00a0 He lived his whole life in the area around the town of \u00c4lvkarleby, in the province of Uppland.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}