UID:
almafu_9960119170902883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-282-08096-2
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9786612080968
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1-84615-472-3
Content:
An examination of the role of landscape and cultural identity in the music of Edvard Grieg. Grieg's music is examined in its relation to landscape and national identity. Grimley demonstrates how competing musical discourses contribute to a body of work more challenging and complex than their popular appeal might suggest. While Grieg's music continues to enjoy a prominent place in the concert hall and recording catalogues, it has yet to attract sustained analytical attention in Anglo-American scholarship. Daniel Grimley examines the role which music and landscape played in the formation of Norwegian cultural identity in the nineteenth century, and the function that landscape has performed in Grieg's work. It presents new perspectives on the relationships between music, landscape and identity. This tension between competing musical discourses - the folklorist, the nationalist and the modernist - offers one of the most vivid narratives in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century music, and suggests that Grieg is a more complex and challenging historical figure than his critical reception has often appeared to suggest. It is through the contested category of landscape, this book argues, that these tensions can be contextualised and ultimately resolved.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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List of musical examples --
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List of illustrations --
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Preface --
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Introduction --
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National contexts : Grieg and folklorism in nineteenth-century Norway --
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Landscape as ideology : nature, nostalgia and Grief's 'culture of sound' --
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Grief, landscape and the Haugtussa project --
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Modernism and Norwegian musical style : the politics of identity in the Slåtter, op. 72 --
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Distant landscapes : the influence of Grieg's folk-music arrangements --
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Conclusion --
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Appendix : Haugtussa texts (songs 1, 2 and 8) --
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Bibliography --
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List of Grieg's works mentioned in the text --
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Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84383-210-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
DOI:
10.1515/9781846154720
