Ouse Bay

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This scene follows the outer half of the bay, turning towards the castle with a main inspiration being again the traditional music of Western Norway, and the shared history of 19th and 20th century ‘Fashionable Dances’, such as the Waltz, Masurka or Polka. In the UK these types of dances were popular among the social elite during the regency period and following decades14, whereas these types of tunes continued to be popular in Scandinavia for much longer, melding almost into a second but mostly partitioned folk music known as Gammeldans15. The North of England and the West Coast of Norway had a substantial amount of musical interaction during this period, the early 20th Century, with the British tourist vessels in Bergen, for example, forming an avenue for musical transmission; as in the case of Nils Tjøflot, who would row out underneath these vessels with a fiddle to learn the tunes being played16. The concept for this scene was the potential for a Waltz (or Vals) to have been transmitted this way, with this being a more stylised composition using the Hardanger Fiddle (played by Lisa Haugeland) and Seljefløyte, akin those by Gjermund Larsen17. Overhead and around are the sounds of Northern Lapwings, Common Snipes, White Wagtails and Meadow Pipits.

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Lindisfarne - Places Past and Present: Site Specific Composition for Heritage Sites

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Ouse Bay

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Lindisfarne - Places Past and Present: Site Specific Composition for Heritage Sites

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