Following tunes have been featured at previous Nordic Harp Meetings…

• Medieval tunes from Piae Cantiones, a collection of songs which were sung in the cathedral school of Turku from 13th to 16th century (published in 1582):
  Gaudete, gaudete
  In stadio laboris
  Scribere proposui

• Archaic folk tunes, playable on 5 stringed kantele:
  Mistä koppa kantelohon (How to make the soundbox for a kantele)
  Satavuotinen sakka (Sediment of 100 years)
  Lehmän tanssi (Cow’s dance)
  Toinen hääpolska (second wedding polska)

• Folk tunes from traditional fiddle repertoire (pelimannimusiikki) which nevertheless work fine on harp or kantele, too:
  Vanha häämarssi pohjanmaalta
  Grannens bastu (jenkka från Jeppo)
  polska från Alajärvi efter Johan Gustaf Hauta-Aho
  Pinnin Valssi
  Masurkka
  Lampaan bolska: A Finnish folk version of the Folie d’Espagne theme from Renaissance/Baroque times, here with some variations from the 1809 notebook of the fiddler Samuel Rinda-Nickola (1763 – 1818).

• Luurankojenkka (Skeleton dance) in the version of Yrjänä and Helka Ermala. It has interesting, not quite romantic lyrics…

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