Nordic Art Music

Author : Frederick K. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313012174

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Nordic Art Music by Frederick K. Smith Pdf

The five countries that make up Northern Europe—Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland—have, over the course of the last several centuries, developed and unique and viable art music history that easily rivals that of their continental neighbors. Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium provides an informative and accessible overview of the fascinating historical and aesthetic developments of this music and its creators, from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, through the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras, to the beginning of this new century. Though some Nordic composers, including Edvard Grieg, Carl Nielsen, and Jean Sibelius, have found great acclaim in all parts of the world, author Frederick Key Smith lays the foundation for their work in his discussion of the many composers relatively unknown outside of Northern Europe. Smith ably discusses the composers, styles, and representative works of each era in language that makes for a highly readable musical history as well as a superior reference guide. The first English-language book of its type in nearly 40 years, Smith's study brings into focus this broad and exciting aspect of music history.

Author : Jean Christensen
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1576470199

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New Music of the Nordic Countries by Jean Christensen Pdf

New Music of the Nordic Countries describes the music of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden composed during the latter half of the twentieth century. Along with providing biographical material on most of the living Nordic composers, the book discusses in detail the major trends in Scandinavian contemporary music as well as many of the recent musical works. The 800-page volume is edited by John D. White, a former Scholar to Iceland and a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. White is the author of Part III, New Music in Iceland and has enlisted five other distinguished Nordic musical scholars to write the remaining sections of the book. Bound together philosophically, geographically, and to a significant extent ethnically, the five Nordic countries hold a unique place in today's world. They are populated by talented, creative achievers, and each nation possesses its own special qualities. This is certainly true in its music, yet little of Nordic tone art of the late twentieth century is widely known outside of Northern Europe. Thus, this comprehensive volume will serve a valuable purpose in disseminating knowledge about this important body of music literature.

Author : Tim Howell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315462837

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The Nature of Nordic Music by Tim Howell Pdf

The Nature of Nordic Music explores two distinctive yet complementary understandings of the term ‘nature’: the inherent features, characters and qualities of contemporary Nordic music, and how the elemental forces of nature, the phenomena of the physical world (landscape, climate, environment), inspire and condition creativity here. Within a broader debate about the meaning of ‘Nordicness’, 12 case studies challenge our assumptions about a ‘Nordic tone’ to reveal a creative energy that is diverse and cosmopolitan in outlook. Each of the three parts of the book – ‘Identities’, ‘Images’ and ‘Environments’ – accommodates an eclectic array of musical genres (classical, popular, jazz, folk, electronic). This book will appeal to anyone interested in Nordic music and culture, especially students and researchers.

Author : Ole Marius Hylland,Erling Bjurström
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319778549

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Aesthetics and Politics by Ole Marius Hylland,Erling Bjurström Pdf

Through comparative and integrated case studies, this book demonstrates how aesthetics becomes politics in cultural policy. Contributors from Norway, Sweden and the UK analyse exactly what happens when art is considered relevant for societal development, at both a practical and theoretical level. Cultural policy is seen here as a mechanism for translating values, that through organized and practical aesthetical judgement lend different forms of agency to the arts. What happens when aesthetical value is reinterpreted as political value? What kinds of negotiations take place at a cultural policy ground level when values are translated and reinterpreted? By addressing these questions, the editors present an original collection that effectively centralises and investigates the role of aesthetics in cultural policy research.

Author : Fabian Holt,Antti-Ville Kärjä
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190603915

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The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries by Fabian Holt,Antti-Ville Kärjä Pdf

Popular music has come to play a significant role in the political and cultural history of the Nordic countries. Research on the region's culture has largely followed national narratives created by political and economic institutions, even as cultural life in the region--which spans a large area of northern Europe and the North Atlantic--displays more complex geographies and evolving global dynamics. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Popular Music in the Nordic Countries offers a series of exemplary studies of music in these transnational dynamics in the specific context of the region's cultures and natural environments, written by the foremost experts in the field. Chapters highlight and challenge music's place in exotic images of the North and in transnational environmentalism, tourism, racism, and media industries. The Handbook illustrates how transnational dynamics evolve and shape musical life and the institutional spheres of policy, education, and research.

Author : Hubert van den Berg,Marianne Ølholm,Benedikt Hjartarson,Irmeli Hautamäki,Torben Jelsbak,Rikard Schönström,Per Stounbjerg,Tania Ørum,Dorthe Aagesen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789401208918

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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925 by Hubert van den Berg,Marianne Ølholm,Benedikt Hjartarson,Irmeli Hautamäki,Torben Jelsbak,Rikard Schönström,Per Stounbjerg,Tania Ørum,Dorthe Aagesen Pdf

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries at the start of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, painting as well as photography, architecture and design, film, radio, and performing arts like music, theatre and dance. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective which includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field, but in a broader cultural context. It examines the social and cultural context of the avant-garde: its media, its locations, its reception and audiences, the transmissions between Scandinavia and Europe, and its cultural consequences. The essays trace the connections between the avant-garde and the cultural discourses of contemporary currents such as revolutionary socialism, radical nationalism and occultism, and discuss questions of gender, ideology and politics, geographical location and technological innovation. The cultural history thus focuses on the role of the avant-garde in shaping the ideas of cultural modernity in the Nordic countries.

Author : Percy Grainger
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198166656

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Grainger on Music by Percy Grainger Pdf

Prolific as a composer, performer, and recording artist, Percy Grainger was an indefatigable writer. This selection of forty-six essays about the production, promotion, and propagation of music is drawn from his over 150 public writings. Their topics range over his own and his friends' compositional plans, piano technique, Free Music', instrumental usage, and his ideas on artistic development in the United States, Australian, and his beloved Nordic lands.

Author : Mark Kroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107156074

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The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord by Mark Kroll Pdf

Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.

Author : Imke von Helden
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Ethnicity in music
ISBN : 9783643908803

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Norwegian Native Art by Imke von Helden Pdf

Often dismissed as an image with which to attract tourists and to endow athletes with associations of power and endurance, the Vikings and Norse mythology seem to have lost their appeal as an element of identity construction in Norwegian society-apart from the phenomenon of metal music, where these elements are essential. This study analyses the functions of Norse themes as they are applied in Norwegian metal culture with regard to the construction and experience of cultural identity, shedding light on the musicians' diverse motivations and intentions. Imke von Helden's research focuses on the adaption of history in metal culture from a Scandinavianist's perspective. She currently works as a research assistant at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Dissertation (Series: Scandinavian. Language-Literature-Culture /Skandinavistik. Sprache-Literatur-Kultur, Vol. 12) [Subject: Sociology, Music Studies, Norwegian Studies, Cultural Studies, Scandinavian Studies]

Author : Stefanie von Schnurbein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004309517

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Norse Revival by Stefanie von Schnurbein Pdf

Norse Revival offers a thorough investigation of Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru) through an international and comprehensive historical perspective. It traces Germanic Neopaganism’s genesis in German ultra-nationalist and occultist movements around 1900. Based on ethnographic research of contemporary groups in Germany, Scandinavia and North America, the book examines this alternative Neopagan religion’s transformations towards respectability and mainstream thought after the 1970s. It asks which regressive and progressive elements of a National Romantic discourse on Norse myth have shaped Germanic Neopaganism. It demonstrates how these ambiguous ideas about Nordic myth permeate general discourses on race, religion, gender, sexuality, and aesthetics. Ultimately, Norse Revival raises the question whether Norse mythology can be freed from its reactionary ideological baggage.

Author : Witold Maciejewski
Publisher : Baltic University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Baltic Sea Region
ISBN : 9789197357982

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The Baltic Sea Region by Witold Maciejewski Pdf

Author : Matthew Gelbart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139466080

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The Invention of 'Folk Music' and 'Art Music' by Matthew Gelbart Pdf

We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as the earliest impetus in classifying music by origins, and how the notions of folk music and art music followed - in conjunction with changing conceptions of nature, and changing ideas about human creativity. Through tracing the history of these musical categories, the book confronts our assumptions about different kinds of music.

Author : Tobias Janz,Chien-Chang Yang
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783839446492

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Decentering Musical Modernity by Tobias Janz,Chien-Chang Yang Pdf

This collection investigates the concept of modernity in music and its multiple interpretations in Europe and East Asia. Through contributions by both European and East Asian musicologists it discusses how a decentered understanding of musical modernity could be matched on multiple historiographical perspectives while being attentive to the specificities of local music and their narratives in East Asia and Europe. The essays connect local, global and transnational history with sociological theories of modernity and modernization, making the volume an important contribution to overcoming the Eurocentric dichotomy between western music and world music within the field of historical musicology.

Author : Sara Arrhenius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015061135086

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Like Virginity, Once Lost by Sara Arrhenius Pdf

Author : Teresa R. Balough
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527505186

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The Life and Work of Percy Aldridge Grainger by Teresa R. Balough Pdf

What goes into the making of a creative genius and how can their gifts be used to help uplift humankind? These were questions that led the Australian/American pianist, composer, and music educator Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) to exhaustively document his life, his thoughts, and his associations and establish in the country of his birth a museum dedicated to helping answer those questions. Grainger was a creative genius who thought more in terms of the future than of the present and was an advocate for the role that music can play in creating a more harmonious and loving future for humankind. This book is the first attempt to bring together in one volume the details of Grainger’s life as they relate to his music using his own words and those of the people who knew him. It makes use of many heretofore unpublished documents and musical examples and is written in such a way as to be accessible to all while also offering a detailed study of his musical works.