The Nielsen companion / edited by Mina Miller.
| Other author | Miller, Mina F., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Portland, OR : Amadeus Press, 1995. |
| Description | ix, 666 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I. Aesthetic, cultural and historical perspectives. Perspectives of the 1990s. Carl Nielsen's homespun philosophy of music / Lewis Rowell -- Carl Nielsen: artistic milieu and tradition: cultural-historical perspectives / Jorgen I. Jensen -- Carl Nielsen now: a personal view / Robert Simpson -- 1923, the critical year of modern music / Jan Maegaard -- Nielsen and the gramophone / Robert Layton -- Perspectives of the 1930s. Carl Nielsen as a writer / Tom Kristensen -- Part II. The music. The orchestral music. Perspectives of the 1990s. Progressive thematicism in Nielsen's symphonies / David Fanning -- Motivic consistency in the Third Symphony / Mina Miller -- Tonal structure in Nielsen's symphonies: some addenda to Robert Simpson's analyses / Harald Krebs -- Recapitulation and tonality / Mina Miller -- Non-classical diatonicism and polyfocal tonality: the case of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, first movement / Mark Devoto -- Tonality, tempo relations and performance / Mina Miller -- Unity and disunity in Nielsen's Sixth Symphony / Jonathan K. Kramer -- Interpreting Nielsen: Nielsen's interpreters / Mina Miller -- Tradition and growth in the concertos of Nielsen / Cecil B. Arnold -- Perspectives of the 1930s. The problem of form in the music of our time with an analysis of Nielsen's Sinfonia Espansiva (first movement) / Povl Hamburger -- Solo, chamber and vocal music. The early song collections: Carl Nielsen finds his voice / Anne-Marie Reynolds -- Nielsen's compositional procedures / Mina Miller -- Structural pacing in the Nielsen string quartets / Charles M. Joseph -- Ink v. pencil: implications for the performer / Mina Miller -- Continuity and form in the sonatas for violin and piano / Joel Lester -- Rhythm, metre and accent / Mina Miller -- Pich and structure in Carl Nielsen's wind quintet / Richard S. Parks -- Postlude / Mina Miller -- Appendix. Carl Nielsen's letters: a selection / translation from the Danish by Alan Swanson. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 644-655) and index. |
| ISBN | 1574670042 |
| ISBN | 1574670050 (pbk.) |