Nordic Art Music : From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium.

Cover -- NORDIC ART MUSIC -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Nordic Microcosm -- NOTE -- 1 Early Art Music in Northern Europe -- THE MIDDLE AGES -- THE RENAISSANCE -- THE BAROQUE ERA -- NOTES -- 2 Nordic Music in the Classical Era -- OPERA -- INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL WORKS -- ART SONGS -- NOTES -- 3 Nordic Romanticism -- IN THE WAKE OF NAPOLEON -- THE DANISH GOLDEN AGE CONTINUES -- FINLAND IN THE ROMANTIC ERA -- PIANIST AND POET: EDVARD GRIEG -- NOTES -- 4 Into the Modern Era -- AMONG THE THREE MASTERS -- ORCHESTRAL MASTERS: NIELSEN AND SIBELIUS -- IN THE SHADOW OF SIBELIUS -- THE LAST OF THE SCANDINAVIAN ROMANTICS -- NOTES -- 5 Northern Europe in the Modern Era -- NATIONAL ROMANTICS AND ROMANTIC MODERNISTS -- NEO-CLASSICISTS, SERIALISTS, AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES -- NOTES -- 6 Old Complexities and New Simplicities -- NOTES -- 7 ContemporaryTrends and Nordic Composers -- ACOUSTIC MASTERWORKS -- ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC IN NORTHERN EUROPE -- NOTES -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- Appendix I Glossary of Nordic Folk Music -- NOTE -- Appendix II Selected Nordic Composers and Discography -- ADDITIONAL RECORDINGS -- Appendix III Addresses, Journals, and Record Companies and Distributors -- NORDIC MUSIC INFORMATION CENTRES -- JOURNALS -- RECORD COMPANIES AND DISTRIBUTORS -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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