-----Original Message----- From: David Kettlewell [mailto:da...@musica-humana.com] Sent: 18 August 2009 22:16 To: a...@bcorkett.freeserve.co.uk Subject: Tune title spelling - Äppelbo Gånglåt
Alan Corkett wrote on Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:45 > Can anyone tell me where the letters with dots over and suchlike > should go in the tune title "APPELBOLATEN" (it's Swedish). > I have it handwritten, twice and differently, from various sources, > and I don't trust either rendition. Both English and Swedish Wikipedia confirm what I know as normal, that the name of the place is "Äppelbo" APPELBOLATEN - Äppelbolåten: but this isn't the name I know as usual in Sweden, and Google only gave me 70 'hits' for it: on the other hand it gave me 3,000 hits for the form i know, "Äppelbo Gånglåt" - 'apple' in Swedish is "äpple" [two syllables, epp-le, the first syllable as in Epstein, the second like 'let' without the 't'] - 'bo' is 'live', or a place you live, like a nest: but in this case it's probably a form of 'bod', same word as 'booth', meaning the animal's stable (fä-bod = fäbod) which gives its name to the whole summer pasture area - Swedish Wikipedia suggests that the name of the village means 'the summer pasture where the wild apples grow' http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84ppelbo - 'a tune' is 'en låt', the same sound as in UK English 'fort', 'taught', 'thought' - 'the tune' in Swedish is 'låten' - the word corresponding to the 'gang' in 'gangplank' and 'gangway' meaning 'walk' or 'walking' *is* 'gang' in Danish and Norwegian: but in Swedish it's 'gång', pronounced like 'gong': so a 'walking tune' or march (usually a wedding march) is called a 'gånglåt' - so 'The Walking-Tune from the Summer Pasture where the Wild Apples Grow' is "Äppelbogånglåten" ("Äppel-bo-gång-låt-en") More at <http://www.new-renaissance.net/swedish> English Wikipedia just gives the name, a map and a photo of the church: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84ppelbo> Hope this helps David _____________ David Kettlewell, PhD, BMus, AHA formerly professor, Tartu University, Estonia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Musica Humana - Music and Musicology to educate the whole person ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <http://www.new-renaissance.net> -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
