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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Edvard Grieg’s choral music has remained little known outside Scandinavia. One of the chief aims of this book is to bring this body of work to the notice of a wider audience, in the hope that it may receive greater prominence in concert programmes. Choral pieces form a relatively small proportion of Grieg’s total output, although works such as the Album for Male Voices and the Four Psalms... Read more
Contents: The Choral Music Tradition in Norway; The Early Works; Occasional Works; Commemorative Pieces; Album for Male Voices, op. 30; Dramatic works; Later Works and Choral Arrangements; The Four Psalms, op. 74; Appendix A: Choral Works in Chronological Order of Composition; Appendix B: Personalia; Select Bibliography; Discography; General Index; Index of Choral Works.
Biography
Beryl Foster
’I am impressed by how well you [Beryl Foster] write. You truly have included all the essentials about the choral music and in an elegant way have intertwined biographical information in a vivid account of the separate works. With your two books on Grieg’s songs and choral music you stand out now as THE Grieg specialist in Great Britain. I congratulate you most sincerely!’ Professor Finn Benestad.
