{"id":865,"date":"2021-11-01T02:09:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T02:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=865"},"modified":"2021-11-18T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:44:14","slug":"josefins-dopvals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/josefins-dopvals\/","title":{"rendered":"Josefins Dopvals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0\u00a0Josefins Dopvals\u00a0<\/strong>is a tune composed fairly recently, but that has taken the fiddling world by storm.<\/p>

\u00a0 Roger Tallroth is the composer.\u00a0 He comes from a family of musicians, including his father and numerous uncles who were proud players of the traditional music of Uppland.<\/p>

Although he plays many instruments, his specialty is guitar, and that is the instrument he played for many years as part of the band\u00a0V\u00e4sen<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0The band traveled the world, made many CDs, and performed countless concerts, using their special blend of nyckelharpa, viola, and guitar to captivate both audiences and other musicians.<\/p>

Josefins Dopvals is one of many tunes Tallroth composed, this one a waltz in honor of his niece being baptized.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 It evidently was originally composed in the key of G, but V\u00e4sen always performed it F for better harmonies.\u00a0 \u00a0Most Swedes also play it in F.\u00a0 \u00a0But the tune was adopted by musicians around the world, including America, Ireland, Scotland, England, Japan, Australia, and others…\u00a0 and most of the musicians who took it up decided to play it in G because they were more comfortable in that key!<\/p>

\u00a0 Because this list of tunes is being used mostly by Americans, I conceded to write this waltz out in G.\u00a0 \u00a0Almost anywhere you go, you will find musicians to play it with in G.\u00a0 If you go to Sweden, though, be prepared for F.<\/p>

However, I had to listen to several dozen YouTube videos before I found one that featured Swedish musicians playing it in G.\u00a0 \u00a0You will find it here<\/a>.<\/p>

To the left is a photo of a typical medieval baptismal font such as are still used in Swedish churches today.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0Josefins Dopvals\u00a0is a tune composed fairly recently, but that has taken the fiddling world by storm. \u00a0 Roger Tallroth is the composer.\u00a0 He comes from a family of musicians, including his father and numerous uncles who were proud players of the traditional music of Uppland. Although he plays many instruments, his specialty is guitar, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-865","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}