Fiddle 3 (Mon) – Week 1

Arto Järvelä is our guest teacher for the first half of the session.
Arto Järvelä
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Here are this week’s tunes . . .
(Press the arrow to play or right-click the highlighted title to download and save.)

I taught Green Fields of America, as I learned it from Lotus Dickey of Paoli, Indiana. His way was very similar to one played by Stella Elam of Bond County, Illinois. This American tune is slightly different from an Irish tune of the same name.

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Green Fields of America by Stella Elam of Bond County, Illinois

Pollonesa #8 from Maria Spoof

Arto learned this polonaise out of a music notebook from the 19th century.

Filed under: Fiddle 3,Paul Tyler by Paul | August 31, 2009 | Comments (1)


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  1. Arto Järvelä tunes - Weeks 1 & 2 : Flog (Fiddle Blog) on September 10, 2009 11:39 pm

    [...] check out posts for Paul’s Fiddle 3 and Fiddle 4 (Week 1). In Fiddle 3, Arto taught Pullonesa #1 (a Polonaise) and in Fiddle 4 (Week 1) it was Rahapolska (a wedding [...]

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