Archives

Archives

musikk
Salmodikon from the collections. Photo: Adnan Icagic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sound recordings.
About 2000 tapes, mainly original recordings but some are copied from other archives. All tapes are in climat-regulated storage.

Manuscripts.
About 40.000 pages. There are handwritten songbooks and music sheets, questionnaires, background information, written interviews etc.

Published sound recordings (CD, LP, MC-Cassettes).

Catalogue of Sami records

Newspaper clippings.
Information about traditional music in Northern Norway is included, with a main focus on Sami music (in the period 1988-98 also including Sweden).

Litterature.
A library with literature about traditional music in Northern Norway.

Photos.
The photo collection is available at Fotoarkivet på Tromsø Museum.

Videos

Instruments.
A few instruments are included.

liten note
As early as 1799 two Sami yoiksongs were written down by an Italian traveller, Giuseppe Acerbi. These melodies are amongst the oldest documented from Northern Norway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stor note
Acerbi (1799) also documented some dance melodies from Alta, among them a “Halling” (an old Norwegian dance).