Country: Jylland, Denmark
Type: mixer
Formation: any number of couples in closed circle.
Steps:
polkatrin( polka),
gangtrin (walk)
Sheet music:
(1) Sørensen, Pia & Per/ VI: 27 gamle folkedanse fra Jylland. [Kolding]: Eget forlag, [2000] p.54.;
(2) Wallin, Sonja & Börje/ Gamla dansar i Skåne: tävlingsdanser och skicklighetsdanser. Helsingborg: [Eget förlag], 1982. p.39.;
(3) Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur/ Musik till svenska folkdanser. Del I.. 2:a uppl. Stockholm: SUB, [1975]. p.42.
Recordings:
Det kongelige Kapel [YouTube];
Hasselgren, Ragnar 'den glade kopparslagaren' (Harmony Music) [UW-Madison];
Kolling, Valdemar 1925 (Concert Record Gramophone) [Internet Archive];
Lundemann, Arne Musikalske Job Opslag Vol. 2 [YouTube];
Meyer, Torben & Mary Horneman (Odeon (RD 1059b)) [Internet Archive];
Rico Kvintetten Glade ølviser track 03 [YouTube];
Spillemandslauget Østjyderne Nordiske legestuemelodier track 06 [Google sites].
Stribolt, Oscar ca 1938 (His Master's Voice (X 1094)) [Internet Archive];
Ölin, Tommy midi arrangemang for Yamaha Genos [YouTube].
| Bars | Part | Dance progression: |
| 1-4 | (a) | Circle: All circle CW, 8 walking steps. |
| 5-8 | All advance to centre, 4 walking steps. Clap hands on 4th step (6:2). Retire, 4 walking steps. | |
| 9-12 | All circle CCW, 8 walking steps. | |
| 13-16 | All advance to centre, 4 walking steps. Clap hands on 4th step (14:2). Retire, 4 walking steps. | |
| 17-18 | (b) | Advance: M advance, turn over L shoulder [CCW] and face corner (=new partner), 4 walking steps. |
| 19-20 | All curtsey/bow. | |
| 21-24 | W advance 4 walking steps, take 2-hand hold with new partner, and 'pull' new partner back out to original circle, 4 walking steps. | |
| 25-32 | (c) | Polka: All take waltz hold with new partner, and dance turning polka moving in LOD, 8 polka steps.
Repeat from (a) as desired, with a new partner at each repetition. |
See YouTube videos from/with Havnedans i Roskilde 2015; Brøndby Spillemandslaug og Dansere & Vestegnens Harmonikaklub 2016; Dwight Lamb, Kristian Bugge, Mette Kathrine Jensen 2011 [Note: dance is Swede-Finn mixer.]
Provenance:
Music, originally German, composed by C. Peters (1772-1827). In Denmark, it was first performed im the musical ”En Børsbaron” in Folketeatret in Copenhagen
in 1885, and became very popular all over northern Europe. The musical was a Danish translation of the original German musical "Ein geadelter Kaufmann"
by Karl August Görner, translated by Richard Schrøder.
The dance popped up in Jutland in the 1980s, origin unknown.
Sørensen used it in a workshop for the elderly at Uldum Højskole in 1991. [Sørensen, p.55]
In Bara Härad, Skåne [Sweden], 'Kopparslagaren' was danced as a test of agility and stamina by 2 men
[1,
2]
, and had been passed on within the folk dance group Hembygdsgillet in Malmö since about 1900,
based on information provided by Vilhelm Sjökvist, Malmö. According to Wallin, it had also occured in northern Jutland. In Brøderslev, between
Ålborg and Hjørring it was danced similarly to the version in Bara. In Lønstrup, west of Hjørring, first they danced
pivot steps or hopsa with either two-hand hold or a close hold [eg a mirror-image hold] before dancing the hopping and clapping sequence, followed again by the turning
sequence and then hopping with 2 sticks. The object was to continue as long as possible. [Wallin, p.38]
See also:
Kopparslagarin, Replot [Finland],
Swede-Finn mixer [Nordic countries].
Source: Sørensen, Pia & Per/ VI: 27 gamle folkedanse fra Jylland. [Kolding]: Eget forlag, [2000] pp. 54-55.
See also:
-- Wallin, Sonja & Börje/ Gamla dansar i Skåne: tävlingsdanser och skicklighetsdanser. Helsingborg: [Eget förlag], 1982. pp. 38-39.
-- Svenska Ungdomsringen för Bygdekultur/ Beskrivning av svenska folkdanser del I. Stockholm: SUB, 1964. (SFDH), 2018. p.37.
Description: Laine Ruus, Edinburgh, 2016-07-18, rev. 2023-02-17.
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