Rasmus Storm's Notebook
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Rasmus Storm's Notebook is a handwritten collection of tunes written in the 1760'es by Rasmus Storm. It is one of the earliest and most important collections of Danish traditional music
. Storm was a Danish fiddler and Dancing master
born in 1733 on the Island of Funen
. He was the son of an indentured peasant and worked as an assistant to a merchant. He began compiling his tunebook around 1760, but it is unknown where he learned the tunes. Among the tunes are minuet
s, polskas
, bourré
s, march
es and rigadoons - as well as otherwise unknown dance types such as "dantz" and "serras" and several folk melodies. Today the notebook is kept by the Danish Ethnological collection.
Danish traditional music
thumb|350px|right|Rebild Spillemandslaug, a [[guild]] of traditional musicians founded by [[Evald Thomsen]].Danish traditional music is the music genre that has its roots in pre-modern Denmark. In this period it was common for towns to have one or more town musicians who played at dances,...
. Storm was a Danish fiddler and Dancing master
Dancing master
Dancing master may refer to:* The Dancing Master, a dance manual, first published by John Playford in 1651* Dancing master, an early term for a dance teacher, or perhaps a choreographer...
born in 1733 on the Island of Funen
Funen
Funen , with a size of 2,984 km² , is the third-largest island of Denmark following Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy, and the 163rd largest island of the world. Funen is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 454,358 inhabitants . The main city is Odense, connected to the...
. He was the son of an indentured peasant and worked as an assistant to a merchant. He began compiling his tunebook around 1760, but it is unknown where he learned the tunes. Among the tunes are minuet
Minuet
A minuet, also spelled menuet, is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 3/4 time. The word was adapted from Italian minuetto and French menuet, and may have been from French menu meaning slender, small, referring to the very small steps, or from the early 17th-century popular...
s, polskas
Polska (dance)
The polska is a family of music and dance forms shared by the Nordic countries: called polsk in Denmark, polska in Sweden and Finland and by several names in Norway in different regions and/or for different variants - including pols, rundom, springleik, and springar...
, bourré
Bourré
Bourré is a trick-taking gambling card game primarily played in the Acadiana region of Louisiana in the United States of America. And also in the Greek island of Psara with the name Boureki...
s, march
March
March is in present time held to be the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of the seven months which are 31 days long....
es and rigadoons - as well as otherwise unknown dance types such as "dantz" and "serras" and several folk melodies. Today the notebook is kept by the Danish Ethnological collection.