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Hardanger fiddle

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A Hardanger fiddle (or in hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument used originally to play the music of Norway. [1]

84 relations: Alexander Rybak, Andrea Een, Annbjørg Lien, Armageddon (1998 film), Baroque, Bone, Bowed string instrument, C (musical note), Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Carter Burwell, Church (building), Coat of arms of Norway, Concert pitch, Contemporary classical music, D (musical note), Dan Trueman, David Lindley (musician), Devil in Christianity, Districts of Norway, Dragon, Dunkirk (2017 film), Edvard Grieg, Fargo (film), Fiddle, Fingerboard, Hardanger, Hauk Buen, Henrik Ibsen, How to Train Your Dragon (film), Howard Shore, Hulder, Inlay, Kathryn Tickell, Kivlemøyane, Knut Buen, Kontra, Lars Fykerud, Låtfiol, Lillebjørn Nilsen, Lilyhammer, Liza Lim, Loretta Kelley, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Music of Norway, Musical instrument, Myllarguten, Myrkgrav, Nacre, Neck (water spirit), Nils Økland (musician), ..., Norway, Notodden, NRK, Nyckelharpa, Olav Jørgen Hegge, Peer Gynt, Piano, Rabeca, Region, Resonance, Rio Yamase, Rohan (Middle-earth), Rosemåling, Scroll (music), Sheet music, Soundtrack, Steven Van Zandt, String (music), String instrument, Stroh violin, Sympathetic string, Tailpiece, Tales from Earthsea (film), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Tinn, Transposing instrument, Trevor Rabin, Troll, Tuning peg, Valdres, Viola d'amore, Violin, Wood. Expand index (34 more) »

Alexander Rybak

Alexander Igoryevich Rybak (born 13 May 1986) is a Belarusian-Norwegian singer-composer, violinist, pianist and actor.

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Andrea Een

Andrea Een (born January 22, 1947) is a violinist, violist, Hardanger fiddler, poet, and Professor Emerita of Music at St. Olaf College.

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Annbjørg Lien

Annbjørg Lien (born 15 October 1971 in Ålesund and raised in Mauseidvåg, Norway) is a Norwegian musician, playing the hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle), violin, and nyckelharpa.

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Armageddon (1998 film)

Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

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Bone

A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the vertebrate skeleton.

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Bowed string instrument

Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings.

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C (musical note)

C (Do, Do, C) is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (F, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.

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Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (born August 28, 1979) is a fiddler, born in Dublin, Ireland.

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Carter Burwell

Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American composer of film scores.

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Church (building)

A church building or church house, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly for worship services.

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Coat of arms of Norway

The coat of arms of Norway is a standing golden lion on a red background, bearing a golden crown and axe with silver blade (blazoned Gules, a lion rampant Or, crowned Or, holding an axe Or with a blade argent).

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Concert pitch

Concert pitch is the pitch reference to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance.

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Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s to early 1990s, which includes modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music.

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D (musical note)

D is a musical note a whole tone above C, and is known as Re within the fixed-Do solfege system.

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Dan Trueman

Dan Trueman is a composer, fiddle player, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer.

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David Lindley (musician)

David Perry Lindley (born March 21, 1944) is an American musician who founded the band El Rayo-X, and who has worked with many other performers including Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Curtis Mayfield and Dolly Parton.

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Devil in Christianity

In mainstream Christianity, the Devil (or Satan) is a fallen angel who rebelled against God.

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Districts of Norway

The country Norway is historically divided into a number of districts.

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Dragon

A dragon is a large, serpent-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures around the world.

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Dunkirk (2017 film)

Dunkirk is a 2017 war film written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II.

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Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist.

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Fargo (film)

Fargo is a 1996 crime film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Fingerboard

The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments) is an important component of most stringed instruments.

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Hardanger

Hardanger is a traditional district in the western part of Norway, dominated by the Hardangerfjord and its inner branches of the Sørfjorden and the Eid Fjord.

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Hauk Buen

Hauk Buen (born 11 May 1933) is a Norwegian hardingfele fiddler and fiddle maker.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

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How to Train Your Dragon (film)

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated action fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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Howard Shore

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores.

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Hulder

A hulder is a seductive forest creature found in Scandinavian folklore.

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Inlay

Inlay covers a range of techniques in sculpture and the decorative arts for inserting pieces of contrasting, often coloured materials into depressions in a base object to form ornament or pictures that normally are flush with the matrix.

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Kathryn Tickell

Kathryn Tickell, OBE, DL (born 8 June 1967) is an English player of the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle.

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Kivlemøyane

Kivlemøyane (English: The Kivle Maids), is the popular name of three dairy maids in Seljord, Telemark, who was turned to stone according to legend.

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Knut Buen

Knut Buen (born 31 October 1948) is a Norwegian fiddler, composer, folklorist and publisher.

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Kontra

A kontra is a Hungarian (Hungarian: háromhúros brácsa, ‘three-stringed viola’), Czech, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Romani instrument common in Transylvania.

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Lars Fykerud

Lars Hansson Fykerud (5 April 1860 – 19 August 1902) was a Norwegian Hardanger fiddler and composer.

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Låtfiol

The låtfiol is a type of fiddle native to Sweden, which features two sympathetic strings running underneath the fingerboard.

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Lillebjørn Nilsen

Bjørn "Lillebjørn" Falk Nilsen (born 21 December 1950) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and folk musician.

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Lilyhammer

Lilyhammer is a Norwegian-American television series starring Steven Van Zandt about a former New York-based gangster named Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano trying to start a new life in isolated Lillehammer, Norway.

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Liza Lim

Liza Lim (born 30 August 1966) is an Australian composer.

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Loretta Kelley

Loretta A. Kelley is an American Hardanger fiddle player.

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Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (born 26 July 1959) is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish folk music band Altan, which she co-founded with her late husband Frankie Kennedy in 1987.

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Music of Norway

Norway is a rather sparsely populated country in Europe (5 million inhabitants in an area of some excluding Svalbard and Jan-Mayen), but even so its music and its musical life are as complex as those of most other countries.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Myllarguten

Targjei Augundsson (1801 – November 21, 1872), better known as Myllarguten (meaning the Millerboy), is arguably the most acknowledged Norwegian folk musician to this day, and by far the most legendary.

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Myrkgrav

Myrkgrav is a Norwegian blackened folk metal band with a single member, Lars Jensen.

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Nacre

Nacre (also), also known as mother of pearl, is an organic-inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer; it also makes up the outer coating of pearls.

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Neck (water spirit)

The neck, nicor, nixie or nokken (Nixe; nikker, nekker; Danish: nøkke; nøkk; näck; näkki; näkk) are shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore who usually appeared in forms of other creatures.

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Nils Økland (musician)

Nils Økland (born 7 January 1961) is a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player known as a bridge builder between contemporary music and folk music, and the brother of the musician Torbjørn Økland.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Notodden

is a city and municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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NRK

NRK (an abbreviation of the Norwegian: Norsk rikskringkasting AS, generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway.

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Nyckelharpa

A nyckelharpa ("keyed fiddle", or literally "key harp", plural nyckelharpor) is a traditional Swedish musical instrument.

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Olav Jørgen Hegge

Olav Jørgen Hegge (died August 26, 2005) was a Norwegian Hardanger fiddler and folk dancer with American ties.

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Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen published in 1867.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Rabeca

The rabeca or rabeca chuleira is a fiddle from northeastern Brazil and northern Portugal featured most commonly in Brazilian forró music.

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Region

In geography, regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).

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Resonance

In physics, resonance is a phenomenon in which a vibrating system or external force drives another system to oscillate with greater amplitude at specific frequencies.

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Rio Yamase

is a Japanese violinist, arranger, and composer.

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Rohan (Middle-earth)

Rohan (from Sindarin Rochand) is a kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy setting of Middle-earth.

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Rosemåling

Rosemåling, or rosemaling is the name of a traditional form of decorative folk art that originated in the rural valleys of Norway.

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Scroll (music)

A scroll is the decoratively carved beginning of the neck of certain stringed instruments, mainly members of the violin family.

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Sheet music

Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of music notation that uses modern musical symbols to indicate the pitches (melodies), rhythms or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt (born November 22, 1950) is an American musician and actor, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve.

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String (music)

A string is the vibrating element that produces sound in string instruments such as the guitar, harp, piano (piano wire), and members of the violin family.

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String instrument

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Stroh violin

The Stroh violin or Stroviol is a type of stringed musical instrument that is mechanically amplified by a metal resonator and horn attached to its body.

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Sympathetic string

Sympathetic strings or resonance strings are auxiliary strings found on many Indian musical instruments, as well as some Western Baroque instruments and a variety of folk instruments.

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Tailpiece

A tailpiece is a component on many stringed musical instruments that anchors one end of the strings, usually opposite the end with the tuning mechanism (the scroll, headstock, peghead, etc.).

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Tales from Earthsea (film)

is a 2006 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Gorō Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi and Toho, and distributed by the latter company.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic high fantasy adventure film produced, written, and directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and based on the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings.

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Tinn

Tinn is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway.

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Transposing instrument

A transposing instrument is a musical instrument whose music is recorded in staff notation at a pitch different from the pitch that actually sounds (concert pitch).

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Trevor Rabin

Trevor Charles Rabin (born 13 January 1954) is a South African musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and film composer.

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Troll

A troll is a class of being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore.

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Tuning peg

A tuning peg is used to hold a string in the pegbox of a stringed instrument.

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Valdres

Valdres is a traditional district in central, southern Norway, situated between Gudbrandsdal and Hallingdal.

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Viola d'amore

The viola d'amore (Italian for "love viol") is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_fiddle

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