Nordic Art Music: From the Middle Ages to the Third Millennium by Frederick K. Smith

Author:Frederick K. Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2008-04-11T00:54:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Carl Nielsen, I.irirtn Music, trans. Reginald Spink (London: Hutchinson, 1953) 9. Skink uses the word "unquenchable," howexcr, instead of the more familiar and apropos "inextinguishable."

2. From an 1882 letter to Gotfi-ed Matthison-Hansen (1832-1909). Edrard Grieeq: Letters to Collcal ucs and Friends, ed. Finn Bencstad, trans. William Fl. Flakerson (Columbus, OH: Peer Gynt Press, 2000) 508.

3. Finn Benestad and Dag Schjeldrup-Ehbe, Jolion Srendsen: The Mau, the Afar- stro, the Music, trans. William H. Flakerson (Columbus, OH: Peer Gent Press, 199S) 195.

4. Benestad and Schjclderup, 161.

5. Niels Grinde, A History of' N07-11uian AIu,sic, trans. AVilliam H. Halverson Leland B. Sateren (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1991) 233.

6. Robert Simpson, Carl Nielsen:.Svinphonist (New York: Taplingcr, 1979) 184.

7. Aaron Copland, What to Listen.lirr in Music (New York: Mentor, 1988) 197.

8. Simpson. 24.

9. Sibelius referred to Kullcrro as a symphonic poem, though in breadth and magnitude it is every hit a full-tledgcd sy mphony.

10. Sibelius as quoted in Glenda Dawn Goss, "Observations on Music and Musicians" ti-om The Sibclins Companion, ed. Glenda Dasyn Goss (Westport, ("F: Grccn- wood Press, 1996) 225.

11. Simpson, 176.

12. Robert Layton, Sibelius (New York: Schirmer, 1993) 137.

13. In its subsequent arrangement as a concert suite, IKrrntt Kristian 11 became Sibelius's first published orchestral vNork (Breitkopfand Harrel).

14. Gabriel Faurc, Arnold Schoenberg, and William \Vallace (I860-1940) also composed sets of incidental musi; to]- Pr1Ie•as ct d1t•iisandc. Further, Claude Debussy set Macterlinck's play as his single contribution to the field of opera.

15. Donald Francis "Loyey, Essays in M local Analysis, 6'olnrne III: Concertos (London: Oxlirrd University Press, 1936) 211.

16. Simpson, 143.

17. Nielsen, 33-37.

18. John H. Yoell, The Nordic Sound: Explorations into the Music of Denmark, Norarav, and Sweden (Boston: Crescendo, 1974) 154.

19. John Horton, Scandinavian Music: A Short History (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975) 131.

20. Sibelius as quoted in Erik Tawaststjerna, Sibelius: Volume 1, 1865-1905, trans. Robert Layton (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976) 130.

21. l.avton, 111.

22. Cecil Gray, Sibelius (London: Oxford University Press, 1934) 89.

23. Jan Jacoby, "A Survey of Art Music," from Music in llcnmark, ed. Knud Ketting (Copenhagen: Danish Cultural Institute, 1987) 34.

24. Donald Francis 'I'ov,cv, Essays in Musical Analysis, Volume II: Symphonies (11), Variations and Orchestral Polyphon), (London: Oxford University Press, 1936) 121.

25. YocII, 152.

26. David Fanning, "Nielsen" from A Guide to the Symphony, ed. Robert Layton (London: Oxford University Press, 1995) 361.

27. Preston Steelman, The Symphony, 2nd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992) 244.

28. Sibelius as quoted in James Hepokoski, Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) 32-33. It should be noted that the composer wrote the latter two portions of this quoted excerpt more than six months earlier than the first portion.

29. Layton, 91.

30. Erik Tawaststjcrna, Sibelius: 1'olume III, 1914-1957, trans. Robert Layton (London: Faber & Faber, 1997) 331.

31. Ruth-Esther Hillila and Barbara Blanchard Hong, "Merikanto, Oskar" from Historical Dictionary of'the Music and Musicians of Finland (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997) 259.

32. Jouni Kaipaincn, "Sclim Palmgren, Lyricist," from Finnish Music Qiaar- tcrly (4/97) 4.

33. Kimnio Korhonen, Finnish Piano Music (Helsinki: Finnish Music Information Centre, 1997) 29.

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