This music, referred to in English as the "Dalecarlian Rhapsody, " is basically a brooding study in loneliness. It opens with a soprano saxophone solo over a darkly brooding accompaniment. The composer has suggested images of a lonely maiden in the forest, whose loneliness is a bit relieved by a passing bridal procession and memories of village dances. The image of a crazy man fiddling at a village dance adds a note of gaudy grotesquerie toward the end, stepping up the forward momentum and adding some garish trills and modal extensions to the conventionally tonal harmonic language.

The composer avows using several Swedish folk melodies along the way. Strings and woodwinds are prominent in the orchestration with brass and percussion underlining some tutti sections. The work ends with a reference to the opening soliloquy of the soprano saxophone.

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