The Songs of Edvard Grieg
The Songs of Edvard Grieg

Author: Beryl Foster

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781843833437

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Comprehensive survey of Grieg's 180 songs, considering particularly questions and issues of performance. Edvard Grieg's 180 songs mirror his artistic and personal development more intimately than any of his other music, yet are still the least known part of his output. This definitive appraisal, now revised and updated, discusses every song, including those left only in manuscript and sketches at the composer's death, set against the background of his life and times. It also deals with the poetry set, often chosen to reflect his current situation, and the poets, several of whom, including great figures of the day such as Ibsen and Bjornson, were his friends and colleagues. Grieg frequently bemoaned poor translations and indifferent performances, and the various editions and translations, from first publication to the present day, are also discussed, together with his own ideas for interpretation. Musical examples and analysis are included to give a closer understanding of Grieg's word-setting and harmonic development, although their performance is always kept paramount. BERYL FOSTER is a graduate of London University and studied singing in Colchester and at the Royal College of Music. As well as all the usual repertoire, since 1980 she has made a particular study of the songs of Grieg and other Norwegian composers, giving recitals, lectures and workshops in Britain, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and China. She is also a private teacher andfestival adjudicator.

Grieg
Grieg

Author: Daniel M. Grimley

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781843832102

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An examination of the role of landscape and cultural identity in the music of Edvard Grieg.

Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg

Author: David Monrad Johansen

Publisher: New York : Tudor

Published: 1938

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13:

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The life of Edvard Grieg, a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide.

The Great Piano Works of Edvard Grieg
The Great Piano Works of Edvard Grieg

Author: Edvard Grieg

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781457400179

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This edition contains the Peer Gynt Suite with familiar titles such as 'Morning Mood,' 'Anitra's Dance,' 'The Death of Ase,' and 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' along with numerous of Grieg's Lyric Pieces. We've even included the opening theme of his Piano Concerto in A Minor. This publication contains 50 selections.

Olav Trygvason
Olav Trygvason

Author: Edvard Grieg

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-06-09

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781500134013

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Title: Olav Trygvason, Op. 50 Composer: Edvard Grieg Original Publisher: Peters The Vocal Score to Grieg's Olav Trygvason, Op. 50, as originally published by Peters. This opera remained incomplete, with one act, three scenes. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.

Edvard Grieg and His Songs
Edvard Grieg and His Songs

Author: Sandra Jarrett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-16

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1000507467

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Originally published in 2003, Edvard Grieg and his Songs examines the lifetime of Edvard Grieg. His songs were among his most popular and well-known works and both historians and critics have seen in them, Grieg at his most sophisticated and innovative. Important in and of themselves, the songs also illuminate critical aspects of his other works such as his musical impressionism, his use of folk music as a source of inspiration, and his novel approach towards harmony. Fifty of Grieg’s most important songs form the focus of this book. Each song is discussed individually and within the wider context of the composer’s output. The book provides a translation of the lyrics, and analysis of the poem and a description of the song’s form, melody, tessitura, harmony, rhythm and accompaniment, together with suggestions for interpretation. In addition to this, the book gives a brief biography of Grieg, with a chapter that analyses his approach to song writing.

Song
Song

Author: Carol Kimball

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9781423412809

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Naslagwerk van de liedkunst en de literatuur hierover.

Scandinavian Song
Scandinavian Song

Author: Anna Hersey

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-08-11

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0810884542

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Scandinavian art songs are a unique expression of the cultures of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Although these three countries are distinct from one another, their languages and cultures share many similarities. Common themes found in art and literature include a love of nature, especially of the sea, feelings of longing and melancholy, the contrast between light and dark, the extremes of the northern climate, and lively folk traditions. These shared sensibilities are reflected and expressed in a tangible way through music. Scandinavian art song has faced several challenges over the years in North America (even in the American Midwest, where descendants of Scandinavian immigrants are concentrated). But matters have changed recently with the recent expansion of diction curricula to cover languages other than English, French, German, and Italian. The primary obstacle remains practical resources for the study of art songs and lyric diction of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. This guide remedies this problem. Scandinavian Song is a practical guide to the art songs of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Unlike other sources that give at best a cursory overview of lyric diction in the Scandinavian languages, this guide provides practical information, enabling teachers and students to render transcriptions of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish texts into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)—an absolute necessity for any study of repertoire. An extensive survey of available music, sample IPA transcriptions and translations, as well as a website link with native speakers reciting selected song texts, make this book an invaluable resource for students and professors in North American college, university, and conservatory voice programs.

The Book of Lieder
The Book of Lieder

Author: Ian Bostridge

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 1247

ISBN-13: 0571260918

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This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition - thus allowing the reader to engage in depth with a particular poet and at the same time to follow the composer's development. Richard Stokes, whose work in this field is already widely acclaimed, provides illuminating short essays on each of the fifty composers' approach to Lieder composition, as well as well as notes on all the poets who inspired the songs.The volume is notable for the accuracy and elegance of its translations, and for its fidelity to the German verse: every care has been taken to print the words of the sung text, while adhering to the versification and punctuation of the original poem.Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, Goethe, Heine and Schiller are among the highlights of a book which illuminates one of the great musical traditions and will be an indispensable handbook for every music lover.