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| a) Lockrop (2'05) (herding
call) Karin Edvards Johansson Transtrand, Dalarna |
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| b) Lockrop på kor, får och getter (0'50)
(herding call) Dansar Edvard Jonsson, Malung, Dalarna  |
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| c) Vallåt efter Frisell, Mockfjärd (1'40)
(herding song) Pelle Jakobsson, cow horn, Orsa, Dalarna |
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| d) Beväringsmarsch från Leksand (1'58)
(soldiers marsch) Lars Jobs, spelpipa (recorder), Leksand, Dalarna |
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| One of the oldest forms of Swedish folk music. The use of summer pastures is an ancient method of tending cattle which has survived in but a few places, but was at one time prevalent in most of central Sweden. Each farm had a “fäbod” – a group of chalets and sheds to which the cattle were driven in order to graze during the summer. The cattle were allowed to wander freely in the area, tended by boys or girls. A special kind of functional music developed in connection with the tasks involved. Signals were blown on birch-bark horns or cow horns (1 c) to call in the cattle from the woods or to communicate with colleagues in distant pastures. Even more common was the use of “lockrop” (herding calls), a shrill, high-pitched call which could carry a long way due to the use of a special technique of squeezing the larynx. These calls could consist of long ornate melodies or short phrases (1 a-b). The “spelpipa” – similar to a recorder – was often used for whiling away the time (1 d) | ||
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