Nå skruva Fiolen
1790 epistle by Carl Michael Bellman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nå skruva fiolen (Now screw the violin) is Epistle No. 2 in the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's 1790 song collection, Fredman's Epistles. The epistle is subtitled "Till fader Berg, rörande fiolen" (To father Berg, about the violin). It is both about and mimicking the rhythm of playing the violin. The scholar Lars Lönnroth comments that Bellman used the resemblance of a cello to a woman's body, certainly pretending to play it as such for laughs, while the use of words like "screw" in the lyrics was similarly explicitly obscene. The Bellman interpreter Fred Åkerström recorded the song on his 1974 album Glimmande nymf.
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"Nå skruva Fiolen" | |
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Art song | |
English | Now screw the violin |
Written | July–September 1770 |
Text | poem by Carl Michael Bellman |
Language | Swedish |
Melody | Unknown origin |
Dedication | Fader Berg |
Published | 1790 in Fredman's Epistles |
Scoring | voice and cittern |
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