Folk dance from Denmark

Gärdeby Gånglåt (Gerdeby Walking Tune)
Niels Mejlhede Jensen, Bøgeløvsvej 4, 2830 Virum, Denmark. e-mail (web master)

Midi music arrangement performance

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Midi music arrangement:

A proposal for a music arrangement can be heard in midi on your computer (if you have a sound card). (I have not played the tunes here with the "drive" I want for dance music). I have chosen different musical instruments in general midi to play the arrangement as given in the table below.
It is a big problem how the instruments will sound on different sound cards: probably quite disappointing. And it may sound very different on different computers. So I have mostly chosen very few instruments here. But it gives an impression of change of instruments. For a real orchestra I would choose somewhat different from here. (And for a given computer I would forget about the names of the instruments, and just choose among the computer sounds).

The tune is played 2 times here (with its many repetitions), see the table below. The principle is possible shift of instruments and parts for every phrase of 8 bars. The arrangement starts with improvisation parts, working towards the melody.

Gärdeby gånglåt (Gerdeby Walking Tune). 

 
Play 1 2
Phrase a b a b
Subphrase a1 a2 a1 a2 b1 b2 b1 b2 a1 a2 a1 a2 b1 b2 b1 b2
Piccolo . . . . . . . . . . mel mel mel mel . .
Flute . . . . . . ns . . . . . . . . .
Oboe . . . . . . . . . mod . . . . . .
Clarinet . . . C2 . C2 . . . . . . . . As As
Bassoon . C1 . . . . . C1 . . . . . . mod mod
Tenor sax . . . . . . . . mod . . . . . . .
Trumpet . . C2 . C2 . . . . . . . . . mel mel
Frnc horn . . . . . . . . . . . . mod mod . .
Trombone . . . . . ns . . . . . . . . mod mod
Fiddle . . . . . . . . . . As As As As . .
Cello . . . . . . . . . . Bs Bs Bs Bs . .
Accordion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mod mod
Acou bass . . . . ns . . . . . . . . . ns ns
String ens C1 C1 . . . . C1 C1 . . . . . . C1 C1
Clarinet 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bs Bs
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