Meaning of slatt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stone slab used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
2. A Norwegian style of folk music or dance, or a piece of such.

Examples

“the name of "a gorrlaus slått". And though the players themselves fully acknowledge the fact that the formal structure of Norafjells may differ, even widely, from player to player, or even from one playing to another by the same player, yet it is the same "slått" and recognized as such. So in spite of its variability, "the slått" has an identity, and the subject of the present dissertation is four or five "slåtts" – no more.”

“Bull’s very personal style of violin playing, a result of professional studies and the slåtter folk music influence of the peasant Hardanger fiddlers living in the Bergen countryside, attracted critical praise everywhere he performed.[…]Gangar: “Walking dance.” A type of Norwegian slått in duple or compound meter. Halling: Also known as lausdans. A type of Norwegian slått in duple or compound meter. Hardingfele: “Hardanger fiddle.” A traditional Norwegian folk instrument, resembling a violin, with four bowed strings and four sympathetic strings. The traditional music of the hardingfele is the slått.”

“There is also a corresponding ambiguous use of the term slått or fiddle tune. I will use the term slatt both as a designation of the genre, and in the sense when used in a sentence like ”Skårsvikjen is a nice slått”.”

“He thought it was a slått he must have heard in Rauland, and couldn't get out of his head. It was so memorable that when he came home to Dahle he played the slått at once. It was probably neither Huldra or Nøkken, but simply Knut Dahle's own creative mind playing a trick on him. The new slått was wonderful, sometimes wild and unruly, other times soft and sensitive. When Knut first played this slått he thought it was one he had heard from Gibøen or Myllarguten[…]”

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