TY - JOUR TI - The Two-pulse Dipod in Norwegian Stev, When Sung AU - Ekgren, Jacqueline Pattison LA - en T2 - the Phenomenon of Singing PY - 2011 NV - 8 AB - Norwegian stev, short 4-line songs, are performed in southeastern Norway in a reciting-singing style in Telemark and Setesdal that may stem from a millenium ago. The reciting-singing style, called kveding, has been thought to be an unsystematic free rhythm. However, solo reciter-singers called kvedarar (pl.; kvedar, s.) often foot-tap the irregular rhythm. Groups of listening kvedarar can foot-tap the irregular rhythms simultaneously, independent of whether the solo kvedar foot-taps or not. This raises the question: how can these irregular rhythms be predictable? Analysing foot-tapping in stev performance documented by film reveals a short-long two-pulse rhythm that can vary considerably. This two-pulse may be called a dipod, meaning that 2 poetic (metrical) accents establish the backbone or core of each two-pulse phrase. It seems that poetic accents in stev are always word accents, bringing sung stev close to speech and in that sense reciting. The reciter-singers (kvedarar) traditionally foot-tap these poetic accents and only these; they never foot-tap linguistically unaccented syllables (such as ble in syllable). This then is accentual poetry, literally. The poetic dipod and its two-pulse in performance is old, reminiscent of two-accent lines in Old Norse folk poetry, yet still emerging in popular and classical lyrics, which will be demonstrated. KW - Stevleik KW - Norvegia UR - http://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/singing/article/view/983 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Dipod rules : Norwegian stev, paired accents and accentual poetry AU - Ekgren, Jacqueline Pattison LA - en T2 - Versatility in Versification: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Metrics CY - New York PY - 2009 PB - Peter Lang SP - 207 SN - 9781433105784 KW - Stevleik KW - Norvegia ER - TY - JOUR TI - The stev connection. Latching and binding AU - Ekgren, Jacqueline Pattison LA - en T2 - Studia Musicologica Norvegica PY - 2005 NV - 31 SP - 150-171 KW - Stevleik KW - Norvegia ER - TY - JOUR TI - Norwegian kveding [reciting-singing]. What’s the score AU - Ekgren, Jacqueline Pattison LA - en T2 - Studia Musicologica Norvegica PY - 2002 NV - 28 SP - 93-120 KW - Stevleik KW - Norvegia ER - TY - JOUR TI - Edda and runes alive in Norwegian stev AU - Ekgren, Jacqueline Pattison LA - en T2 - Folkemusikklags Skrifter [Norwegian Folkmusic Society Publications] PY - 1999 NV - 12 SP - 55-91 KW - Stevleik KW - Norvegia ER - TY - JOUR TI - Norway : fjords and fiddles AU - Cronshaw, Andrew LA - en T2 - World music. Volume 1 : Africa, Europe and the Middle East CY - London PY - 1999 PB - Rough guides SP - 211-218 SN - 9781858286358 KW - Stevleik KW - Norvegia ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Radiokappleik: Regional Norwegian Folk Music in the Media AU - Goertzen, C. LA - en T2 - The Journal of Popular Culture PY - 1996 NV - 30 IS - 1 SP - 249-262 KW - Stevleik KW - Norvegia ER - TY - JOUR TI - Musical tradition in the repertoire of folk singer,‘kvedar’‘reciter-singer’Aslak Brekke: stev [one-stanza songs] and viser [stanzaic songs] AU - Ekgren, Jacqueline Pattison LA - en T2 - Studia Musicologica Norvegica PY - 1983 NV - 9 SP - 43-72 KW - Stevleik KW - Norvegia ER -