Ulla! min Ulla! Säj får jag dig bjuda
Song by the 18th century Swedish bard Carl Michael Bellman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ulla! min Ulla! säj, får jag dig bjuda (Ulla! my Ulla! say, may I thee offer), is one of the Swedish poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman's best-known and best-loved songs,[1] from his 1790 collection, Fredman's Epistles, where it is No. 71. A pastorale, it depicts the Rococo muse Ulla Winblad, as the narrator offers her "reddest strawberries in milk and wine" in the Djurgården countryside north of Stockholm.
"Ulla! min Ulla! säj får jag dig bjuda" | |
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Art song | |
English | Ulla! my Ulla! say, may I thee offer |
Written | 1790 |
Text | poem by Carl Michael Bellman |
Language | Swedish |
Melody | Unknown origin, probably Bellman himself |
Dedication | Mr Assessor Lundström |
Published | 1790 in Fredman's Epistles |
Scoring | voice and cittern |
The epistle is a serenade, subtitled "Till Ulla i fönstret på Fiskartorpet middagstiden en sommardag. Pastoral dedicerad till Herr Assessor Lundström" (To Ulla in the window in Fiskartorpet at lunchtime one summer's day. Pastorale dedicated to Mr Assessor Lundström). It has been described as the apogee of the bellmansk, and a breezy evocation of Stockholm's Djurgården park in summertime. The serenade form was popular at the time, as seen in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni; Bellman has shifted the setting from evening to midday. In each verse, Fredman speaks to Ulla, describing his love through delicious food and drink; in the refrain, he softly encourages her to admire nature all around, and she replies with a few meditative words. The erotic charge steadily increases from one verse to the next, complete in the last verse with the energy of a horse.