Slåtter (Norwegian Peasant Dances), Op. 72
by Edvard Grieg
Seventeen piano transcriptions of Norwegian fiddle dances (slåtter) notated from the playing of Hardanger fiddler Knut Dale. Grieg's most harmonically avant-garde piano works, with modal scales, unresolved dissonances, and asymmetric rhythms. Bartók cited them as a forerunner of ethnographic composition.
Works in this Collection (17)
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 1 – Gibøen's Bridal March No. 1 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 2 – Jon Vestafe's Springdans No. 2 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 3 – Bridal March from Telemark No. 3 Key G major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 4 – Hailing Dance No. 4 Key D major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 5 – Peasant Dance No. 5 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 6 – Gangar from the Fairy Hill No. 6 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 7 – Røtnams-Knut's Halling No. 7 Key D major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 8 – Bridal March No. 8 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 9 – Nils Rekve's Halling No. 9 Key D major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 10 – Knut Luråsen's Halling I No. 10 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 11 – Knut Luråsen's Halling II No. 11 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 12 – Springdans No. 12 Key G major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 13 – Haavar Gibøen's Springdans No. 13 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 14 – Two Hallingar No. 14 Key D major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 15 – The Swain No. 15 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 16 – Springdans from Jølster No. 16 Key A major Difficulty
- Slåtter, Op. 72 No. 17 – Kivlemøyene No. 17 Key A major Difficulty