Already since 2016 Anna Breger has been leading a regular – usually monthly – musical jam session in Vienna (Austria), the Historical Tunes Session, embracing melodies written down before 1850. Prior to the session happens a workshop where some common, as well as hidden, old melody treasures are taught together with chord suggestions. In the session old (dance) melodies with a focus on the 17th and 18th century in Europe are played.

All instruments and singing are welcome, playing level intermediate and above for the workshop.

Pitch: 440Hz
Method: playing and learning by ear
Dates: see Dates page

Some manuscripts we play tunes from:
John & William Neal – A Collection of the most celebrated Irish Tunes (1724, Dublin)
Tanzsammlung Dahlhoff (1767 – 1799, Preußen, Deutschland)
Johann Friedrich Dreyßer – Dantz Büchlein (1720, Süddeutschland/Österreich)
Sexdrega Samlingen (18. Jhdt, Sexdrega, Västergötland, Schweden)
John Playford – The English Dancing Master (from 1651, London)
Francesco Barsanti – Collection of Old Scot Tunes (1742, Edinburgh)
James Oswald – The Caledonian Pocket Companion (~1750, London)
William Vickers – The great Northern Tune Book (1770, London)
Brødrene Bast – Violin Tune Book (1760, Denmark)
Pehr Anderssons Spelmansbok (1731, Sweden)
Gustav Blidström – Nothandskrift från Tobolsk (1715, Sweden)

.. and tunes from many more astonishing collections