Udda Toner - Swedish Folk singing

Udda Toner is a small music publishing company situated in Sweden.

We have our focus on writing and publishing arrangements for voices/ choir arrangements
based on nordic traditional folksinging and books about swedish folkmusic

We also present nordic folkmusic in concert with different groups

ROTVÄLTA, HÖÖK, KORALKVARTETTEN, KULNING, and more


and we offer courses and workshops with folk singing and traditional music from Sweden.

please don't hesitate to contact us, we'll be happy to help you!

Here is a list of music and books that are published in ENGLISH. On the other, swedish pages, you can see all music and books that we have published sometime also presented in english.
You are offcourse welcome to order them as well and we will be happy to help with translation of lyrics.
The CD's that are presented below all have english summeries.

Music and books
approx price  

270 SEK

40 USD

30 EUR

SWEDISH FOLK SINGING 1
herding call

An introduction to the music and the vocal technique.
warming up the voice, the history, the music, how to use the technique..
including a CD
by Susanne Rosenberg

in english
(100 pages)

 
COMING SOON!!
SWEDISH FOLK SINGING 4
  SWEDISH FOLK SINGING 4
old chorale singing
arrangement, singing style, history

25 SEK

3 USD

2 EUR

The Dung Beetle
An arrangement of a mediviel joke ballad about three insects (!).
The arrangement is for all kinds of singing ensembles and is flexibel with ostinatos and intertwining melody lines. Translation and explanation of lyrics and phonetic guidelines.

 

PUST
by Susanne Rosenberg

50 SEK

7 USD

6 EUR

PUST
av Susanne Rosenberg.
A new written piece for mixed choir. Includes different techniques from the old traditional singing style in Sweden such as trallning (diddling) and kulning (herding call).

look at part of the score

Melody Beyond Notes
by Sven Ahlbäck
 

Melody Beyond Notes,
a study of music cognition

by Sven Ahlbäck.
Sven Ahlbäcks dissertation from 2004 that deals with cognitive perspective of music

ONLY AVALIBLE IN PDF FORMAT. If your interested to acquire a copy please send an email to info@uddatoner.com

The tonality of old Swedish traditional music
by Sven Ahlbäck

150 SEK

20 USD

17 EUR

The tonality of old Swedish traditional music
av Sven Ahlbäck.
Descibes the typicall features of swedish folk music. What is a quarter tone? how can you descibe the tonallity and so on...

includes a CD

 

  approx  price  CD, title and artist

NEW!

 

 

180 SEK

20 EUR

26 USD

Krokar, länkar och krus
Susanne Rosenberg, Eva Åström-Rune, Mats Olofsson och Leo Svensson
Old traditional Chorales with four "voices" - singing and cello in och cello i twining interplay

"Listen for Goods sake, it's very beautiful!" (Aftonbladet)

"Susanne Rosenbergs greatness is her almost blues gliding singing -Honest, technically controled but with a sincere devotion without being documetery cool in the embrace with the old chorales" (Östgötacorren)

Susanne Rosenbergs ornamentation sparkle with sharp conture, sometimes intertwining with Eva Aström-Runes voice in suggestive, quarter tone filled exotic polyphony - as from another time and place. (UNT)

Listen!

Ack kära så säg

Sion klagar med stor smärta

Dagen ifrån oss skrider

 

180 SEK

20 EUR

26 USD

R7
Rosenbergs Sjua (Drone)

Take four female voices and mix them with a fiddle, a viola and a cello. Add a good portion of energy a couple of ounces of sincerity and a pinch of roughness and playfulness to taste. Then add a bit of fury. Stir, but only so that each ingredient can still be discerned. Sit down. Listen.

Four beautiful voices and a string trio.
Susanne Rosenberg, Ulrika Bodén, Sofia Sandén and Eva Åström-Rune (voices)
Sven Ahlbäck (fiddle), Ellika Frisell and Hadrian Prett (viola), Annika Wijhbladh (cello)

Listen to an evening chorale - Nu vilar hela jorden

180 SEK

20 EUR

26 USD

Uppå marmorns höga berg
Susanne Rosenberg
(GIGA),

traditional songs both by solo voice and in polophony togehter with stringtrio. Beautiful songs from the middle of Sweden.
Susanne Rosenberg, Ulrika Bodén, Karin Holdar and Eva Åström-Rune (voices)
Sven Ahlbäck (fiddle), Mikael Marin (viola) and Annika Wijhbladh (cello)

Some of the arrangements that are performed on this CD is avalible:
- Uppå marmorns höga berg, Klosterjungfrun, Svarthyndan, Sven i Rosengård and Vallåtar från Gammelboning

180 SEK

20 EUR

26 USD

Luftstråk
Sven Ahlbäck o Maria Kalaniemi

Dynamic Nordic Duo

A gorgeous duet album of traditional and original tunes by two living legends: Finnish accordion master Maria Kalamieni och Swedsh fiddler Sven Ahlbäck. Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa) and Susanne Rosenberg (vocal) guest on some tracks as well.

180 SEK

20 EUR

26 USD

i Österled
Rotvälta

Rotvälta goes east and find some excation music in the swedish speaking parts of Finland. Two part singing and wild fiddlemusic. Rotvälta is Susanne Rosenberg (voice), Sven Ahlbäck (fiddle), Mikael Marin (viola) and Mats Olofsson (cello).
guest: Karin Holdar(voice)

The polyphonic songs on this album are published in "SVENSK FOLKSÅNG 3" Here is one exemple "En sjöman promenerade"

hemlig stod jag
Rotvälta

180 SEK

20 EUR

26 USD

hemlig stod jag
Rotvälta

Traditional music from all parts of Sweden. Fiddle playing and folk singing on a high level

180 SEK

20 EUR

26 USD

polski dantz
Höökensemblen

Höökensemblen playes traditional city music from the 17th century

Höökensemblen are:
Ånon Egerland, Sven Ahlbäck and Magnus Gustafsson (fiddle)
Mikael Marin (viola), Mats Olofsson (cello), Katarina Lindgren (double bass) and Susanne Rosenberg (voice). Guest are also the "Blockflöjtskvartetten" and Sven Åberg (lute)

180 SEK

20 EUR

26 USD

Höök!
Höökensemblen

The first record with "Höökensemblen" with city music, both playing and singing, from Sweden and Norway.

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How do I order?

Make your order at info@uddatoner.com

After processing your order we will send you an invoice to be paid safely by creditcard through PayPal

- if You need help finding arrangements for Your choir to sing
- If You want to buy any of our published sheet music or cd's
- if You need workshops or concerts with Swedish folk singing for choir,
- If you want help finding Your way into Swedish folk singing

please don't hesitate to contact us, we'll be happy to help you!

Udda Toner
c/o Rosenberg
Folkungagatan 88 B nb
S-116 22 Stockholm
Sweden
info@uddatoner.com

ps. Udda Toner means Odd/uneven/nonmatching Notes! but it also have a double meaning in Swedish -
When we started our little company we lived on an island that's called Norra Stavsudda,
and the ending - udda, means cape or point! ds.

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