Uti vår hage (song)
"Uti vår hage" ("Out in our meadow"[1] or "In our meadow"[2]) is a traditional Swedish folk song first published in Gotland[3] sometime during the 1880s by Hugo Lutteman,[4] though it is also considered to have earlier origins as far back as the 1600s.[5]
The piece became widely published in the 1890s and is associated with a boom in interest in folk traditions in Sweden during this decade.[5] The piece continues to be well known by the Swedish populace, performed frequently by choral groups, and has been described as a "national song treasure" typically taught to schoolchildren. Also owing to this popularity is an arrangement of the piece by composer Hugo Alfvén in 1923.[4][2]
The piece is often performed, among other Swedish traditional songs, during Walpurgis Night.[6]
Recordings
An early recording was made in the acoustic version of Oscar Ralf [sv] in 1916, and appeared on the album of the same year. The song has also been recorded in English by Engel Lund, with Ferdinand Rauter on the piano under a different translation, "Out in the Garden" in London January 26, 1954, which was released on record in June the same year.[7] The Swedish music band State of Sound covered the song in 2016.
In film
The piece appears in the following films:[8]
- Du gamla du fria (1938)
- Hem från Babylon (1941)
- Som du vill ha mej (1943)
- Kärlek och allsång (1944)
- Janne Vängman i farten (1954)
- Sista dansen (1993)
- Hästmannen (2006)
- Linas kvällsbok (2007)
- Young Royals (2024)
References
- ^ Cristensen, Birthe Dam, ed. (1991). Nordiske sange en nordisk folkehøjskolesangbog (in Danish) (1st ed.). København: Nordisk Råd. p. 154. ISBN 8773035777.
- ^ a b Frederick Key Smith (2002). Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-275-97399-5.
- ^ Ekelöf, Gunnar; Thygesen, Erik (1996). Modus vivendi : Selected Prose. Norwich: Norvik Press. p. 237. ISBN 1870041305.
- ^ a b Baldacchino, Godfrey (2011). Island songs : a global repertoire. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. pp. 250, 258. ISBN 0810881772.
- ^ a b Wright, Rochelle (1998). "Nature Imagery and National Romanticism in the Films of Alf Sjöberg". Scandinavian Studies. 70 (4): 461–476. JSTOR 40920083.
- ^ "Vårens populäraste körsånger".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Svensk mediedatabas".
- ^ Uti vår hage på Svensk Filmdatabas