Tumgik
#danish folk music
ohnoitstbskyen · 1 year
Text
youtube
Det er hvidt herude, kyndelmisse slår sin knude overmåde hvas og hård, hvidt forneden, hvidt foroven, pudret tykt står træ i skoven som udi min abildgård.
Det er tyst herude, kun med sagte pik på rude melder sig den små musvit. Der er ingen fugl, der synger, finken kun på kvisten gynger, ser sig om og hvipper lidt.
Det er koldt herude, ravne skrige, ugler tude, søge føde, søge læ. Kragen spanker om med skaden højt på rygningen af laden, skeler til det tamme kræ.
[...]
Inderlig jeg længes efter vår, men vintren strænges, atter vinden om til nord! Kom, sydvest, som frosten tvinger, kom med dine tågevinger, kom og løs den bundne jord!
- St. St. Blicher, 1838
202 notes · View notes
froggytroll · 8 months
Text
Some of you don't know Trolska Polska and I'm here to change that. If you like the goblincore aesthetic this might be your new favorite band.
37 notes · View notes
camaraclicks · 7 months
Text
Tumblr media
18 notes · View notes
rhapsody1 · 2 months
Text
Tumblr media
2 notes · View notes
puppycheesecake · 1 year
Text
shuffle your on repeat playlist and share the first ten tracks 🎶💖
Tagged by @liliumsims & @crippledtrait (thank you!) I have way too many playlists on repeat so I’m using my last-played one instead.
Mariah Carey - Fantasy
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood
ABBA - Fernando
Laura Branigan - Self Control
Bee Gees - Tragedy
Sum 41 - In Too Deep
My Chemical Romance - Thank You For The Venom
Chaos Chaos - Do You Feel It?
Digital Underground - Same Song
I feel like I’m late to the party with this, so I’m tagging whoever hasn’t done it yet and wants to~
8 notes · View notes
Text
I am so glad I don’t live on my own
3 notes · View notes
wordsbysimona · 9 months
Text
Song of the day - 27th June, 2023
Higher Ground - Rasmussen (2018)
5 notes · View notes
mygwenchan · 8 months
Text
youtube
Valravn - Ólavur Riddararós
2 notes · View notes
grungeincluded · 5 months
Text
7 songs from Kashmir, Mando Diao, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Strokes, Frédéric Chopin, Emīls Dārziņš and Elliott Smith!
Not only does melancholic music provide feelings of social support and anxiolytic effects, but such music allows the listener to “disengage from the distressing situation and focus instead on the beauty of the music” ! Read the full post !
Grunge Included | @37fotosb | Linktree
1 note · View note
onenakedfarmer · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
Currently Playing
LAST LEAF Nordic Folk Melodies
Danish String Quartet
0 notes
angelasuart · 1 year
Video
Rasmus Skov Borring playing “Skybrud” on the piano.
“Skybrud”
Tekst: Dy Plambeck, 2018
Musik: Marianne Søgaard, 2018
0 notes
Text
Myrkur - Tor i Helheim 2020
Folkesange ("folk songs") is the third studio album by Danish band Myrkur, led by singer Amalie Bruun. It was released on 20 March 2020 under Relapse Records. Folkesange diverts from the style of the band's previous black metal albums into folk music. The album consists of renditions of Scandinavian traditional music performed with period instruments such as mandola, lyre, nyckelharpa and talharpa as well as of original acoustic compositions. "Tor i Helheim" is, as the title suggests, about the Norse gods Thor and Hela. It received a total of 82,4% yes votes!
youtube
2K notes · View notes
thehmn · 9 months
Text
I made a post some time ago (LINK) about how trolls are more nuanced creatures in Scandinavian folklore than in modern English speaking pop culture and are often used as sympathetic allegories for people who just can’t fit in with mainstream society, be it because of their disability, gender or sexuality.
I realized I forgot about the Danish 1856 ballet A Folk Tale (you can watch it on YouTube here LINK) despite it being an excellent example because in modern times it has been reinterpreted to fit this new view of trolls. (Because it’s an older ballet it has less dancing and more miming and acting than you’re probably expecting)
Tumblr media
The story to help you better understand the ballet: The human girl Hilda and the troll girl Birthe are swapped as infants.
Many years later during a picnic Birthe is flirting with the nobleman Sir Mogens even though her fiancé Junker Ove is present. She enjoys toying with both of them, much to Ove’s dismay and Mogens’ delight. It all ends in Ove and Birthe having a fight resulting in Birthe leaving with Mogens and Ove staying in the forest past sundown to collect his thoughts.
Suddenly a nearby hill opens and reveals the troll sorceress Muri and her adopted daughter Hilda. Muri tells Hilda to lure Ove closer and get him to drink from an enchanted cup but he refuses, spills the drink and won’t give the cup back. As revenge Muri summons the elves who dance him into madness and leave him scared, confused and half naked in the dark forest (if you only know fantasy elves this is a perfect example of what the original elves are like in Scandinavian folklore)
In the underworld we learn that Hilda has been told she’s an elf girl but she senses something is off. Both of Muri’s sons, Diderik and Viderik, are in love with her but Muri has decided that Diderik should marry her because he’s the oldest. During the engagement party Hilda and Viderik get the guests drunk and run away.
They end up near a sacred spring where they see a priest feed the healing water to sick people. They try to cheer the sick and poor people up with music and dance but suddenly Ove shows up. He still has the elf madness and scares everyone. Mogens happens to walk by and thinks Ove is attacking people so he runs to get help, secretly plotting to get Ove out of the way so he can marry Birthe. Meanwhile Hilda feeds some of the sacred spring water to Ove and dance him back to sanity. Mogens returns with soldiers, hunters and farmers and trap Ove. Viderik helps him escape using his magic music and sends Mogens and his men on a wild goose chase.
Back at the mansion Birthe is terrorizing her servants and even goes as far as to threaten to throw her mother out of the house. Hilda who had been running from Mogens’ men makes her way into the mansion where she is recognized as the true heir to the estate. Because of her horrible treatment of the household Birthe is immediately thrown out onto the street and runs to Mogens for help only to find him under a troll spell. Instead of being horrified she’s delighted. Viderik realize she’s his real sister and while they talk it out other supernatural creatures come out and trap Mogens. Muri and Diderik have been looking for Hilda and Viderik and arrive just as Birthe is starting to come around to the idea that she might be a troll. Muri sees an opportunity and asks Mogens if he wants to marry her daughter Birthe. He’s too terrified and refuses until Muri offer him treasure. When Birthe realizes her troll family is even richer than her human family she immediately accepts that she’s a troll and together Birthe and Mogens follow the trolls into the underworld.
Back at the mansion Hilda and Ove have been reunited and are celebrating their wedding. Mogens and Birthe arrives which at first scares people but they’ve come in peace and to show their good will they’ve bought a dance troupe and preform for the newly weds. The ballet ends on a freeze frame of Hilda and Ove standing in the light, looking towards the human world, and Birthe and Mogens in the dark, raising their arms towards the supernatural world, both couples getting their happiest possible ending.
Tumblr media
Now, the original version took place during the renaissance and had a strong Christian theme. Hilda wanted to return to the human world because she longed for Christian values and Ove was like a beacon of purity for her to follow. At the end all trolls left Denmark, symbolizing Christianity finally taking hold of the country.
The updated version takes place in the time it was written and the Christian themes have been severely downplayed. Trolls and all supernatural creatures are still very much present, even watching the wedding from a distance. It is now a personal story about people feeling misplaced and longing for a community that understands and accepts them.
Birthe is aggressive, even cruel at times, but this version also implies her behavior is part nature and part nurture. She is described as spoiled meaning her parents had a huge hand in how she turned out, unable or perhaps unwilling to handle her condition and now her mother despise what she has become. This is evident in how Birthe behaves around her mother. She LOVES her wet nurse who took on the emotional parenting role but recoils at her mother’s touch. She also directs most of her abuse at the housekeeper because she most openly mocks Birthe’s clumsiness and inability to act refined. There’s a heartbreaking scene where Birthe gets so frustrated with her inability to dance and fit in that she screams at her own reflection until the wet nurse calms her down.
Tumblr media
Only two people are able to calm Birthe down, her wet nurse who cuddles her when she gets upset and Mogens who is seen directing Birthe’s attention to himself which softens her demeanor because she likes him and doesn’t want to cause him more harm than he can handle.
Tumblr media
Both her and Mogens are also more queer coded in this version. Birthe wants to be a dancer and gets very up and close with the female dancers. In the first scene Mogens can be seen flirting with the female staff and in the last scene he feels comfortable openly flirting with the male dancers. It’s worth noting neither acts jealous when they see their partner flirt, again shining a light on their alternative relationship.
Tumblr media
And who could forget when Birthe tricks Mogens into kissing Ove. In the taped version he kiss Ove’s hand but in the version I watched live they kissed on the mouth which better explained why Mogens grabs Ove’s face later as if to mockingly say “You think I’m disgusting? Look at what you’ve become”
And you’d think Mogens had more reason to be mad than Ove but no, he’s flustered but gets over it almost immediately while Ove is so angry he rips his jacket off like the good pure boy he is.
Tumblr media
And something that really stands out is Mogens’ worship of Birthe. The first time Birthe appears all the other characters run to the opposite end of the stage but Mogens doesn’t even flinch. He just bathes in her presence. When she asks him to push her on the swing he unprompted gets her whip.
Tumblr media
In a later scene she’s seen using a bell to bully her servants and the final thing that makes her realize she has lost all power is when they ignore it, which makes it very symbolic that Mogens gives her the bell back in the final scene and holds her up high while she rings it. Boy loves his Dom GF so very very much.
Tumblr media
It also says something about Mogens that he randomly appears in the bad part of town. He’s very good at playing the upper class game and seems to be quite respected but also seeks escape in the outskirts of society. When Birthe really gets going you can see Mogens acting shocked followed by pure joy at such a free and wild woman. The Danish translation of Shakespeare’s Taming of The Shrew is Troll can be Tamed and this ballet almost feels like a response to that. Trolls/wild women should not be tamed! They should be free around people who love them for their wildness!
Their behavior is perfectly in line with what we see in the underworld. Muri is played by a male dancer to give her the proper imposing height and it’s left up for interpretation if older female trolls are just bigger than the males or if she’s a trans mommy. The engagement party is risqué from the start and quickly turns into a drunken sex orgy (Good luck to Mogens when he is engaged to Birthe. All I’m saying is as a human he’s going to be very popular with the other creatures) It might seem like an evil world but this version of the ballet really tries to make it clear that this is normal and expected behavior in the underworld. They act like that because they like it and are all happy with the way their society works. Even the more gentle troll Viderik prefer the underworld to the human world. It’s not bad just different.
Tumblr media
Birthe and Mongens almost come of as lower level money-happy Disney villains, deserving of a fitting punishment for their treatment of the people around them, but certainly not death and the story is overall sympathetic to them as people who have been mangled by a society that mistreated and punished them for something that was out of their control which is why they get a happy ending. Definitely worth a watch.
951 notes · View notes
hayleysayshay · 11 months
Text
I rly just saw someone suggest Eurovision enforce Ireland singing in Irish… I’d love for an Irish Gaelic song but it’s a minority language, Irish ppl aren’t more or less Irish for being able to speak Gaelic or not so it would be batshit to enforce this.
I’ve seen a couple dodgy comments from racist trolls about Ukraine sending a black man singing in English as he’s not ‘really Ukrainian’ and it’s just Ukraine trying to look ‘woke’ compared to last year’s ‘very ukranian’ song when like, what does it matter where he was originally from or what language he’s singing, he’s representing Ukraine. This is who Ukraine want to represent them, it’s a ukranian song stfu.
I agree with the homogenous English language is a detriment and I want National languages to have a presence and I want to have a variety of musical style. But I don’t think ppl realise how enforcing language rules is a slippery slope to yikes town. A song representing a country is Swiss/Latvian/Ukranian/Danish etc, no matter the language or musical styling. Like people listen to electronic dance pop, big shock that a lot of countries send electronic dance pop, if a country sent a song in national folk stylings every year it would get repetitive and honestly this has never been a part of Eurovision culture, in the past we got a lot of Shlaeger style ballads and pop songs, basically the same genre, so pretending that really represented the country’s culture just because it was sung in its national language is ludicrious. This may blow peoples mind but Eurovision has always been a pop music show and countries send pop music and pop music is popular music and dance pop is what people are going to send in the current day.
107 notes · View notes
The Round 1 Draw is here!
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
The top left:
Sleeping Beauty Suite vs Bye
Le tombeau de Couperin vs Suite in Old Style
Holberg Suite vs Lemminkäinen Suite
Caucasian Sketches Suite no. 1 vs Suite for Solo Viola
The Golden Mountains vs Carmen Suite no. 2
Lincolnshire Posy vs Der Rosenkavalier Suite
American Suite vs Cello Suite in G Major
Pictures at an Exhibition vs Children's Corner Suite
The bottom left:
Livre de Guitarre dédie au roy, Suite no. 3 in D Minor vs Bye
Suite Española no. 1 vs Masquerade Suite
Lieutenant Kije Suite vs Peer Gynt Suite no. 1
A Time There Was vs Papillons Suite
Violin Partita no. 2 vs Jazz Suite no. 2
The Gadfly Suite vs Suite for Recorder and Strings
Keyboard Partita no. 2 vs Appalachian Spring
The Planets Suite vs Bye
The top right:
Suite from Hamlet vs Bye
English Folk Song Suite vs Mother Goose Suite
Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D vs St Paul's Suite
The Firebird Suite vs Symphonic Dances
Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 vs Dance Suite
Giselle Ballet Suite vs Keyboard Partita no. 6
First Suite in E-flat for Military Band vs Magnificant in Bb Major
The Nutcracker Suite vs Violin Partita no. 3
The bottom right:
Peter and the Wolf vs Bye
Má Vlast vs Swan Lake Suite
Scheherazade vs The Carnival of the Animals
Petrushka Suite vs Danish Folk Music Suite
Mountain Roads vs Second Suite in F for Military Band
Dances in the Canebrakes vs A Moorside Suite
Daphnis et Chloe Suite no. 2 vs L’Arlésienne Suite no. 2
Capriccio Espagnol vs Bye
Please note all of these matches (including byes) were randomly allocated using a random number generator and I will not be making any changes. I will post 1 poll per day starting from 12:00 am GMT time on the 1st of December (in 24 hours time at time of posting), with each poll lasting for a week to give everyone time to listen to each submission.
35 notes · View notes
nordickies · 7 months
Note
What music do each of the Nordickies Brand Nordics™ listen to?
I love that name, I'm going to start using it!
As much as I love the ABBA-obsessed Sweden with his girl-pop, I feel like he would appreciate lots of different genres. Also, metal-fan Sweden is cute. But I fail to see him as the musical powerhouse Sweden as a country really is. I could see him as an old man, listening to old classics from previous decades. They just give him a nostalgic feeling! He probably thinks music peaked in the 60s or something
Denmark just screams dance music to me, and cheezy euro-techno stuff from the 90s. I think his music taste would be pretty versatile, but Aqua and Infernal just come immediately to my mind about Danish music, and they fit his character, so yeah let's go with that. Finland and rock, what can I say. Obviously, that's the only way to go. Metal is especially his thing. It's just too perfect, I love that headcanon so much
Iceland, and maybe this is a bit of a different take than most people have, but to me, he's an indie guy. To me, he's closer to a "hipster" than a stereotypical emo. Like he listens to Systur alone in his room and cries. He's just a nature-loving guy, he loves the peace and quiet of his place and just enjoyed simple slower music
Norway definitely likes rock and metal, like Finland, but he also has an appreciation for folk music. Maybe folk-rock is his absolute favorite? But get him drunk, and he'll just sing along to Norwegian party songs with all of his heart. He'd just never admit it
43 notes · View notes