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T:Melodi från Vest-Agder
T:The Four-Note Tune
L:1/16
M:2/4
C:Trad arr. © 2025 Ben Paley
N:What's fascinating to me about this tune is how much it does with so little. The second part
N:feels like a revelation, like the sun coming out after the overcast of the first  part, and yet
N:they're so very nearly identical. Each part has what I think of as being a "Stonehenge"
N:structure, with a phrase repeated and then capped by a second phrase.
N:Obviously the mystery resides in the performance. For intonation, rhythm and variation \u2014
N:for the soul of the tune, that is \u2014 please listen to Styrbjörn Bergelt's beautiful
N:version on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t6sOiyEvbc.
N:I play this in D, but I think Bergelt plays it in A. I just like the way it sounds and falls
N:under the fingers in D, and since the recording isn't played on the fiddle, I feel comfortable
N:to do whatever feels right. In the recording, there's a drone on the Dominant below the melody,
N:which is a bit harder on the fiddle, so I drone on the A  string more than on the A below,
N:because I do not want the bother of retuning. But you could retune your G string up to A: that
N:would sound great if you don't mind the faff.
N:Or \u2014 and I haven't tried this, but \u2014 you could play it in A, retuned to CAEA: then
N:you'd have the Mediant above and the Dominant below!
O:The county of Vest-Agder (now part of Agder) in Norway.
Q:1/4=65
D:Styrbjörn Bergelt, "Tagelharpa och Videflöjt", 1979
Z:Ben Paley <ben.paley@benpaley.com>
K:Dm
P:A
DE |: F2FD E2EF | G2GF D2DE | F2FD E2EF |
G2GF D2DE | F2GF EDE2 | D6DE :|
P:B
|: FDF2 E2EF | GEG2 F2DE | FDF2 E2EF |
GEG2 F2DE | F2GF E2E2 |1 D6DE :|2 D6 |]