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Music Scores and Lyrics for Folk Dancing

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... notations, texts, translations? You might find something here. On this website I’ve gathered a songbook and several scores, all from the repertoire of my dance group Qualmende Socke (i.e. “Smoking Sock”) in Darmstadt, Germany.

Song Book for Near-Sighted People

Latest Version: September 9, 2009

I was finally fed up with just guessing the lyrics propped up on the music stand, not being able to decipher them properly. This made me take my whole lot of useful lyrics, pour them into the computer and let them come out again in really huge letters. Very useful for dark gyms and other gloomy corners, where musicians often tend to end up. May these lyrics help other singers too to gain a more relaxed posture!

Scores

Last updated: June 28, 2009

Download all scores as a zip-file (19.9 MB).

Here you can find the scores as PDF:

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Of course songbook and scores are on this web for free download. But please keep in mind that these collections will grow: there will always be new lyrics added, mistakes will be corrected and translations will be added (I am planning to put in the english translations as well) or changed. For this reason it's not a good idea to put a copy of this material on your own web page, because this copy will never be updated and always be older than the original. Just put a link to my site on your web page, and you will always be up-to-date!

Dance Seminars

Serbische Tänze mit Vladimir Tanasijevic/Aleksandar Smrekic in Darmstadt on March 4th, 2010, in the evening

Around 1st of May: Tänze vom Balkan in Rostock

Rhythmen, Lieder und Tänze der Internationalen Folklore mit Schwerpunkt „Balkan und Südwesteuropa“ auf Burg Rothenfels mit Margret Mirza, Birgitt Karlson und Franz-Xaver Reinprecht vom 2. bis 6. Juni 2010

Tänze vom Balkan mit Birgitt Karlson in Darmstadt am 18./19. September 2010

Links

A huge collection of folkdance scores, written by Martin Junghans

Website about rhythms

Wikipedia: Bulgarian dances and rhythms

Buy this book on Lulu, or get a free
        download.   A huge collection of bulgarian scores, partially by me:


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