After Sibelius: Studies in Finnish Music
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Adagio Finale
Adagio Religioso
Andante Con Moto
Aulis Sallinen
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Clarinet Concerto
composer analysis
Einojuhani Rautavaara
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Finnish Composer
Finnish contemporary music research
Gestural Association
heininen
Joonas Kokkonen
Kaija Saariaho
Kullervo Symphony
Leevi Madetoja
Live Electronics
modernism in composition
national identity in music
Nordic musicology
orchestral works study
paavo
Paavo Heininen
Pitch Class Centre
Saariaho's Music
Savonlinna Opera Festival
Sibelius Academy
Sixth Symphony
Symphonic Study
Tonal References
twentieth-century composers
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754651772
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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During the last twenty years, the rest of the world has come to focus on the music of Finland. The seemingly disproportionate creative energy from this small country defies prevalent trends in the production of classical music. Tim Howell provides an engaging investigation into Finnish music and combines elements of composer biography and detailed analysis within the broader context of cultural and national identity. The book consists of a collection of eight individual composer studies that investigate the historical position and compositional characteristics of a representative selection of leading figures, ranging from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. These potentially self-contained studies subscribe to a larger picture, which explains the Sibelian legacy, the effect of this considerable influence on subsequent generations and its lasting consequences: an internationally acclaimed school of contemporary music. Outlining a particular perspective on modernism, Howell provides a careful balance between biographical and analytical concerns to allow the work to be accessible to the non-specialist. Each composer study offers a sense of overview followed by progressively more detail. Close readings of selected orchestral works provide a focus, while the structure of each analysis accommodates the different levels of engagement expected by a wide readership. The composers under consideration are Aarre Merikanto, Erik Bergman, Joonas Kokkonen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Aulis Sallinen, Paavo Heininen, Kaija Saariaho and Magnus Lindberg. The concluding discussion of issues of national distinctiveness and the whole phenomenon of why such a small nation is compositionally so active, is of wide-ranging significance. Drawing together various strands to emerge from these individual personalities, Howell explores the Finnish attitude to new music, in both its composition and reception, uncovering an enlightened view of the value of creativity from which many other nations may benefit.
Tim Howell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of York, UK.
