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Sounding North: Music in Scandinavia, 1865-1931. Daniel Grimley. Why Scandinavia?. Isolation vs Cosmopolitanism Conservatism vs modernism Landscape and nature Folklorism , myth, and authenticity Musical influence and tradition Music and other media. Edvard Grieg. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Sounding North: Music in Scandinavia, 1865-1931
Daniel Grimley
Why Scandinavia?
Isolation vs Cosmopolitanism Conservatism vs modernism Landscape and nature Folklorism, myth, and authenticity Musical influence and tradition Music and other media
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto, Peer Gynt
Nationalism ‘Father of Norwegian
Music’ Miniaturism Popularist (Lyric
Pieces) Pictorial/decorative
Grieg Chronology 1843 Born, Landås, Bergen 1858 Enrols, Leipzig Conservatoire 1863 Moves to Denmark, meets H C Andersen, Niels
Gade, J. P. E. Hartmann, Rikard Nordraak 1868 Composes Piano Concerto, meets Liszt (1870) 1875/6 Composes Peer Gynt, sees Der Ring des
Nibelungen in Bayreuth 1877/8 First visits to Hardanger, composes String Quartet
in G minor, Den Bergtekne 1890/1 First major concert in Paris. Fifth book of Lyric
Pieces, hears Gjendine Slaalien in Jotunheim 1895 Song cycle Haugtussa, op. 67 1901/2 Slåtter (Hardanger Fiddle Tunes), op. 72 1907 Dies, 4 September
Grieg and the Norwegian Landscape Associative Formative Landscape and Grieg
Reception Landscape and
Representation (Adolph Tideman,
Johan Christian Dahl) Ecologies of Sound
Landscape and the Lyric Pieces
Op. 68/4, ‘Aften på høyfjellet’ (Evening in the Mountains)
Op. 54/3, ‘Notturno’
Den Bergtekne (The Mountain Thrall), op. 32
Composed Hardanger, 1877/8 Text: Magnus Brostrup Landstad, Norske
Folkeviser (1853) Dialect language Enticement, Eroticism, and the midsummer
night Harmonic evasion: ‘ballad topic’ Climax: structural deflection Postlude
Haugtussa, op. 67 Composed 1895 Text: Arne Garborg (1851-
1924), verse-novella Nynorsk Poetic themes: nature
mysticism, folk legend, unconscious
Grieg setting: 8 songs (originally 12)
Cyclic Structure Schubert, Die Schöne
Müllerin; Schumann, Dichterliebe
‘Det Syng’ (It Sings)
Strophic Setting Modal change: f minor/F major Prelude: Naturklang (nature sound) Register and mode Harmonic structure: verse and refrain Postlude
‘Veslemøy’
Character portrait Strophic Design (‘Stev’) Minor mode Harmonic Structure No postlude
‘Ved Gjætlebekken’ (By Goat Brook)
Emotional/structural climax of cycle Complex strophic/rounded binary hybrid Opening accompaniment: water or bell
sounds? Harmonic structure Register and narrative closure
Further Listening (Grieg)
Piano Concerto, op. 16 String Quartet in G minor, op. 27 Violin Sonatas (1, 2, 3), opp. 8, 13, 45 Lyric pieces, esp. opp. 54, 71 ‘Stemninger’ (Moods), op. 73 Ibsen songs, op. 25 Vinje Songs, op. 33