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slått

slått noun: a Norwegian style of folk music or dance, or a piece of such.

Noun

slått (plural slåtts or slåtter)

  1. A Norwegian style of folk music or dance, or a piece of such.
    • 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...1989, Morten Levy, The World of the Gorrlaus Slåtts: A Morphological Investigation of a Branch of Norwegian Fiddle Music Tradition
    • 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...2002 June 30, Frederick K. Smith, Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, pages 39, 155

Examples of slått in a sentence

  • 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.1989, Morten Levy, The World of the Gorrlaus Slåtts: A Morphological Investigation of a Branch of Norwegian Fiddle Music Tradition:
  • A type of Norwegian slått in duple or compound meter.2002 June 30, Frederick K. Smith, Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, pages...
  • There is also a corresponding ambiguous use of the term slått or fiddle tune.2007 [1988], Tellef Kvifte, On Variability in the Performance of Hardingfele Tunes - and Paradigms in Ethnomusicological Research, Taragot...
  • He thought it was a slått he must have heard in Rauland, and couldn't get out of his head.2017 June 7, Ian J Brodie, Rjukan: A UNESCO World Heritage Site, On Location Guides, page 22:

Forms of slått

pluralslåtts
pluralslåtter

Origin of slått

Unadapted borrowing from Norwegian slått.

Questions about slått

What does slått mean?
Slått means a Norwegian style of folk music or dance, or a piece of such.
How do you use slått in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is slått?
Slått is a noun.
What is the plural of slått?
The plural of slått is slåtts.

Words near slått in the dictionary

  1. slypes
  2. Slytherin
  3. Slytherinish
  4. Slytherins
  5. Slyudyanka
  6. slått
  7. slåtts
  8. slöjd
  9. Slănic
  10. Slătioara
  11. sm

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