FoliesEspagne's video: Friedrich Kuhlau - The Folia theme Sinclairvisan

Menuetto from act 5 from the comic opera Elverhøj, Op.100 (1828), The opening and closing of this menuetto is the melody as used in the Swedish Sinclairvisan tune. An extension of the Folia theme. This tune is firmly grounded in the genre of protest and folk songs. There are many sung versions of the tune. The first 8 bars follow the chord progression of the last 8 bars of the Folia-theme. Like the Finnish/Swedish Lampaanpolska the following 8 bars are somewhat like an answer on the Folia-theme. So in fact the Sinclairvisan is more complex than the Folia, while in the Folia theme the first 8 bars are the same as the first 8 except for the ending. 'Visa' in Swedish means roughly the same thing as 'song' in English. 'Sinclair' is derived from Malcolm Sinclair, a Swedish diplomat, who was murdered on his way home from Turkey 1739 on orders of the Russian government. The original 90 verse text was written by Anders Odel (1718-1773) but there are lots of variants on the original text, and many of them are of a political nature. The Swedish poet Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795) also set words to the La Folia melody, no doubt helping along its spread in Sweden. The complete text in the Swedish language, written by Anders Odel can be found at http://members.tripod.com/minata/sincl.html Arrangements based upon this traditional tune were used by: Olle Adolphson, Edvard Grieg, Jan Johansson, Knutna Nävar (ensemble), Ronnie Svenblad, Sven Bertil Taube, Lena Willemark The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by John Frandsen Released 1997 by Marco Polo Dacapo The music published in this channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within the framework to study the archtype of La Folía which involves people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform me immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be our care to remove immediately the video accordingly. Your collaboration will be appreciated