Nordic art music : from the Middle Ages to the third millennium / Frederick Key Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Frederick Key, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Scandinavia--History and criticism.

Music.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

xviii, 193 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Summary:

Covers composers, styles, and works that are part of Northern Europe's rich and largely underappreciated musical heritage.

Contents:

Introduction: The Nordic Microcosm xi

1. Early Art Music in Northern Europe 1

The Middle Ages 2

The Renaissance 3

The Baroque Era 4

2. Nordic Music in the Classical Era 13

Opera 15

Instrumental and Vocal Works 21

Art Songs 26

3. Nordic Romanticism 31

In the Wake of Napoleon 33

The Danish Golden Age Continues 39

Finland in the Romantic Era 45

Pianist and Poet: Edvard Grieg 47

4. Into the Modern Era 53

Among the Three Masters 54

Orchestral Masters: Nielsen and Sibelius 60

In the Shadow of Sibelius 69

The Last of the Scandinavian Romantics 75

5. Northern Europe in the Modern Era 85

National Romantics and Romantic Modernists 87

Neo-Classicists, Serialists, and Their Contemporaries 99

6. Old Complexities and New Simplicities 113

7. Contemporary Trends and Nordic Composers 137

Acoustic Masterworks 137

Electro-Acoustic Music in Northern Europe 146

Appendix I Glossary of Nordic Folk Music 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-183), discography (pages [157]-174), and index.

ISBN:

0275973999

OCLC:

48613326