Kantele music, runo-singing & Finnish folk poetry

[HerraHirwi]

Ok, here it is. Here you have the whole thread dealing with the Finnish runo-singing and Finnish folk poetry. Let's add all the interesting information about it in here, where you can find it easily. I start with two good links, which'll give you the basic rules and the knowledge about Finnic runos:

The Finnic "Kalevala-metre", used in runo-singing: www.karuse.info/metre.htm

Former Värttinä member Kari Reiman Speaks About Runos:
www.varttina.com/main.site?action=siteupdate/view&id=52

And some kantele links:

What is kantele: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele

And some links to the ones, who make kanteles:

www.kandlekoda.ee/
www.koistinenkantele.fi/
www.lovikka.com/
www.soitinrakentajatamf.fi/

[kaote]

This is a really good idea, to have a separate thread. I got some great links today from a local Finn who has a doctorate degree in Kantele music.

Here is his doctoral thesis on kantele, including some details about runo-singing in some sections (especially Chapter 1). The whole thing can be found here: www.people.iup.edu/rahkonen/kantele/diss/Title.htm

And for Finnish speakers, here is a wonderful site that has a huge collection of runo- and kantele-songs from the archives of SKS, complete with lyrics and midi-files so you can listen! This site is amazing and I could spend hours clicking through the different tunes. Type in 'kantele' or 'runosävelmät' and click on 'Hae' to get relevant results. virtuaaliyliopisto.jyu.fi/esavelmat/haku.php#

Once you have some lyrics and a nice melody to sing, you can learn a particular style of kantele here, Sibelius Academy's folk music site. There are some videos you can view to learn the basics of kantele: www.etno.net/index.php?id=77&la=en (I'm not really too familiar with the different styles of playing, but this one seems well suited to accompany singing, since it uses a strumming method)

[pellonpekko]

beautiful!!

We definite Kantele Music EthnoMusicology.

[HerraHirwi]

pellonpekko said:

We definite Kantele Music EthnoMusicology.

No shit, Sherlock!

Everything which deals about studying traditional music around the world is called ethnomusicology.

I'd recommend to bring something new into a conversation, which deals a little more bigger aspects, like ie. this topic. The idea is to share knowledge between every forum user. If you have a link suggestion, go ahead, link it here. Or if you have a question, just ask. It's a little annoying to babble only something self-evident chic-chat which everyone can figure out. It seems only to be written just because of the writing itself. Please, not like this anymore..