Annika’s Butterfly barndance

I got this beautiful tune from the album ‘Upside Down’ which was released in Australia by Sharon Shannon, Mike McGoldrick, Jim Murray, and Dezi Donnelly.
I’m not sure of the origins of the tune, I would guess Europe, and probably Flemish. The band plays the tune quite slow.

I heard that this tune is from Scandinavia.

Also on Sharon Shannon’s “Out the Gap.” It’s a traditional Finnish tune according to the notes.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this were used in one of Aki Kaurismäki’s tragicomic films. I still haven’t seen them all.

Im finnish and I know the composer 🙂. This piece is also very much of his style. The man, violinist from west of Finland (1910-1984 Kaustinen) is called Konsta Jylhä. The song is called Julhän polska.

And yes, this is polska, 3/4. If you just move the barlines a bit.

This is not the familiar Jylhän polska recorded by Kaustisen purppuripelimannit (who Jylhä formed). That Jylhän polska is in uneven timing, anyway (extra beat at the end of each phrase). Some Finnish polskas are actually in 2/4 time, as it happens.
Perhaps you can put the version you know into 3/4 timing here Alsgaard - it may well be another of Jylhä’s compositions.

I see someone (Alsgaard?) has posted the actual title along with a comment (tsk tsk) in the “alternate title” bit.

It is in a polska style, and by Jylhä, but it is not the tune commonly known as “Jylhän polska”, as I mentioned earlier.

It is called “Santerin kahvila” translated as “Santeri’s Café” (some translate as “Santer’s Café”). This title refers to the local name given to the café (Kappelinkankaan kahvilassa)where Jylhä’s mother worked. It was run by Santeri Isokangas (1885–1967), who did much to promote the music of the area. Many musicians played in the café, and Jylhä learned much from listening to them from an early age.

Here’s a version of the tune - it could possibly be tidied up, but will do:

X:1
T:Santerin kahvila
C:Konsta Jylhä
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:Dmin
D>F A/F/D/F/ A/F/D|G>B d/B/G/B/ d/B/G|
AA/c/ ec AA|[M:4/4]A/d/f/e/ d/c/B/A/ G/F/E/D/ ^CA,|
[M:3/4]D>F A/F/D/F/ A/F/D|G>B d/B/G/B/ d/B/G|AA/c/ eg f/e/f/g/|
ag/f/ fe/d/ ^cA|[1[M:2/4][L:1/16]d4 d4:|[2[M:2/4]d4 d2e2|
|:[M:3/4][L:1/8]f>g f/c/A/B/ c/B/A/B/|c/B/A/B/ cA F2|
G>B dg b/a/g/a/|b/a/g/a/ bg ec|B>d gg/a/ b/a/g|
c>f a/g/f/g/ a/g/f|db/a/ g/a/g/f/ e/f/g/a/|
g/f/e/f/ ge c2|B>d gg/a/ b/a/g|c>f a/g/f/g/ a/g/f|
db/a/ g/a/g/f/ e/f/g/a/|g/f/e/f/ g2 f2:|

Make that Santerin kahvilassa - too much late night transcribing.

With a more moderen (as they say up north) spelling:

X:1
T:Santerin kaffilassa
C:Konsta Jylhä
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:Dmin
D>F A/F/D/F/ A/F/D|G>B d/B/G/B/ d/B/G|
AA/^c/ ec AA|[M:4/4]A/d/f/e/ d/c/B/A/ G/F/E/D/ ^CA,|
[M:3/4]D>F A/F/D/F/ A/F/D|G>B d/B/G/B/ d/B/G|AA/^c/ eg f/e/f/g/|
[1[M:5/4]ag/f/ fe/d/ ^cA d2 d2:|[2[M:5/4]ag/f/ fe/d/ ^cA d2 d>e|
|:[M:3/4]f>g f/c/A/B/ c/B/A/B/|c/B/A/B/ cA F2|
G>B dg b/a/g/a/|b/a/g/a/ bg ec|B>d gg/a/ b/a/g|
c>f a/g/f/g/ a/g/f|db/a/ g/a/g/f/ e/f/g/a/|
g/f/e/f/ ge c2|B>d gg/a/ b/a/g|c>f a/g/f/g/ a/g/f|
db/a/ g/a/g/f/ e/f/g/a/|g/f/e/f/ g2 f2:|

A snippet, just to illustrate the difference - would normally use alternating bars of 3/4 and 4/4 but using 7/4 to save the bother:

X:1
T:Jylhän polska
C:Konsta Jylhä
M:7/4
L:1/8
K:F
c/=B/c/f/ af cA _B/A/B/d/ d2G2G,2|
g/^f/g/a/ bg ec c/d/e/g/ d2A2A,2|
c/=B/c/f/ af cA _B/A/B/d/ d2G2G,2|
g/^f/g/a/ bg ec c/d/e/g/ g4=f2:|

I may finish (or Finnish) this off and submit it sometime.

D major version

This sounds so wonderful in D minor.

I transposed JACKB’s version X:1 into D-minor with a couple minor changes. I think the D# at the end of the A part in X:1 should be D-natural to lead nicer into the B part.

I do want to thank JACKB for the consistent quality and readability of his settings.

X: 1
T: Annika’s Butterfly / Santerin kahvila
T: also called Jylhän Polska
R: Polska
C: Konsta Jylhä
M: 3/2
L: 1/8
K: Emin

This tune is listed elsewhere as “Annika’s Butterfly” but the site does not allow posting alternative time signatures so this is uploaded as a separate tune entirely, acknowledging the tune’s composer. The 3/2 notation is easier to read and understand the pulse of the tune.

Based on “Pibgorn’s” setting for time signatures/barring but put back into Dm and with a few melodic details tweaked based on a couple of Finnish video performances I found (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=295238591575720, https://youtu.be/EqHNuX6rztk) and with the ABC tidied up a bit.

play video

X:7
T:Santerin Kaffilassa
T:(aka: Santerin Kahvilassa, Jylhän Polska, Annika’s Butterfly)
C:Konsta Jylhä
O:Finland
Z:Jem Hammond 3:8:2020 (after various settings on The Session: https://thesession.org/tunes/6657 and from YouTube and other video performances)
R:Polska
M:3/2
L:1/8
M:3/2
K:Dm
D3F AFDF AF D|G3B dBGB dB G2|A3^c x8 & A2 A^c e2 c2 A2 A2|
[M:4/2] Adfe dcBA GFED ^C2 [EA,]2|[M:3/2] D3F AFDF AF D2|G3B dBGB dB G2|
A3^c x8 & A2 A^c e2 g2 fefg|x4 f2 ed x8& a2 gf gfed ^c2 A2|[M:2/2] d4 [Dd]4:|]
[M:3/2] |: f3g fcAB cBAB|cBAB c2 A2 F4|G3B d2 g2 baga|
baga b2 g2 e2 c2|B3d g3a ba g2|c3f agfg ag f2|
d2 ba g3f efga|gfef g2 e2 c4|B3d g3a ba g2|
c3f agfg ag f2|d2 ba g3f efga|gfef g4 f4:|]
W:NOTE: double-headed or -stemmed notes are not intended as chords but as melodic alternatives

Damn. My apologies. I belatedly spotted an accident deletion of a “2” at the end of the very first bar in my notation above - bar A1 should read “D3F AFDF AF D2|”. Unfortunately it’s too late to be able to edit anything. 🙁
Corrected staff and abc notation are available to download/print here: https://app.box.com/s/u3n1vlntnyd8iyz4ww3un6u41sx790oo

You can edit by pressing the “ABC” tab for your tune setting, in the bottom right corner an “Edit” button will appear.

@ NfldWhistler - a brill - thanks for the tip - I hadn’t come across that before. A pity one can’t edit comments!
Done. Cheers.