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This repository displays a first attempt to analyse how a storyteller från the region of Värmland, Sweden, employs musical qualities in his stories. Thinking about dialects, my personal experience is always a feeling of loss: As a child I spoke in Fryksdalsmål, a dialect from the region of Värmland. The dialect is renowned for its singing, musical qualities, which is sometimes stated as one of the reasons for the very strong oral storytelling tradition within Värmland. Today, as a professional flautist living in Gothenburg, some of my dialect washed away over the years. However, I do believe that my playing and musicianship is influenced by the dialect and storytelling from Värmland in several ways.

type	research exposition
keywords	Music Performance, Storytelling, prosody
date	29/11/2023
last modified	25/03/2025
status	in progress
share status	public
affiliation	Karlstad University, LTU
copyright	Ann Elkjär
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2415240/2805769

References

Isof, Wilhelm Larsson, “ULMA acc.10765A”, 1940
Isof, “Dialektsamlingar” <https://www.isof.se/arkiv-och-insamling/arkivsamlingar/dialektsamlingar> [accessed 6 June 2024]
Isof, “Muntliga berättartraditioner” <https://www.isof.se/lar-dig-mer/kunskapsbanker/lar-dig-mer-om-traditioner/muntliga-berattartraditioner> [accessed 30 November 2023]

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name	Figure 1. Recording dialects in 1944 (ISOF ULMA)
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name	Wilhelm Larsson, extract from recording
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name	Wilhelm Larsson_Staying in one key_2
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name	Wilhelm_staying in one key
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name	Wilhelm Larsson_staying in one key 2
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name	Wilhelm_staying in one key 2
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name	audio #4: Short silence before stress
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name	audio #5: staccato
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name	audio #7
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name	Wilhelm Larsson_something funny
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name	"Thinking notes" - hesitation noise
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name	audio #9: The pedagogic and empathetic voice
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name	audio #10: expressing negative emotions
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name	figure #4: Intervals with septims
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name	audio #4 - sjukstuga
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