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010 a| 96068685;

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050 00 a| ML410.N674b| M87 1996;

245 04 a| The music of Per Nørgård :b| fourteen interpretative essays /c| edited by Anders Beyer ; commissioned by the Léonie Sonning Music Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation and the Danish Music Council.;

300 a| 304 pages :b| illustrations (some color), 1 facsimile, music, portraits ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Some of the essays are translations.;

500 a| Includes selected list of composer's works: (pages 275-283).;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 283-286), and index.;

520 a| The Danish composer, Per Norgard (b. 1932) is widely acclaimed as the most important living composer in Scandinavia. His music, while highly personal in form and expression, takes up the mantle of Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius. This book is the first on the composer in English. It is written by composers and scholars who have been concerned with Norgard's music for many years. Their essays cover the broad range of genres and techniques tackled by the composer, and in his own concluding essay, Norgard for the first time recounts, in fascinating detail, his childhood and adolescence in Copenhagen as well as his earliest years as a composer. This book not only pays hommage to a Danish master musician of universal appeal but also provides a valuable research tool for all those interested in contemporary music and its development over the last half of this century.;

600 10 a| Nørgård, Per,d| 1932-2025x| Criticism and interpretation.=| ^A110735;

700 1 a| Beyer, Anders,d| 1958-e| editor.=| ^A395858;

590 a| Joyner-BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING. SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER: MusicLib Media CD-3617.;

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The music of Per Nørgård : fourteen interpretative essays / edited by Anders Beyer ; commissioned by the Léonie Sonning Music Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation and the Danish Music Council.

Other author	Beyer, Anders, 1958- editor.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Aldershot : Scolar ; Vermont : Ashgate, ©1996.
Description	304 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 facsimile, music, portraits ; 24 cm
Subjects	Nørgård, Per, 1932-2025--Criticism and interpretation.

Contents	The great change: Per Nørgård and Adolf Wölfli / Jorgen I. Jensen -- Make change your choice! Nørgård and Nordic melody / Hans Gefors -- Connections and interspaces: Per Nørgård's thinking / Karl Aage Rasmussen -- Beyond infinity: on the infinity series - the DNA of hierarchical music / Erling Kullberg -- Nørgård choral music: lyricism with a dramatic nerve / Jean Christensen -- Waves, hierarchies, interferences: Per Nørgård and percussion music / Ivan Hansen -- Attraction and repulsion: four fragments of a portrait / Anders Beyer -- Perception and deception: aspects of Per Nørgård 'hierarchical' methods and parallel developments in recent Central European music / Julian Andersen -- Art and Truth: Per Nørgård and Martin Heidegger / Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen -- Per Nørgård's music drama: failures, triumphs, and new beginnings / Jens Brincker -- The cosmic dance: Per Nørgård organ music / Jens E. Christensen -- In search of the spirit: dialogues with Per Nørgård and his music / Stephen Johnson -- Mind the gap! a colleague's personal view / Poul Ruders -- Early worlds: close-ups from my childhood / Per Nørgård.
Abstract	The Danish composer, Per Norgard (b. 1932) is widely acclaimed as the most important living composer in Scandinavia. His music, while highly personal in form and expression, takes up the mantle of Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius. This book is the first on the composer in English. It is written by composers and scholars who have been concerned with Norgard's music for many years. Their essays cover the broad range of genres and techniques tackled by the composer, and in his own concluding essay, Norgard for the first time recounts, in fascinating detail, his childhood and adolescence in Copenhagen as well as his earliest years as a composer. This book not only pays hommage to a Danish master musician of universal appeal but also provides a valuable research tool for all those interested in contemporary music and its development over the last half of this century.
Local note	Joyner-BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING. SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER: MusicLib Media CD-3617.
General note	Some of the essays are translations.
General note	Includes selected list of composer's works: (pages 275-283).
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 283-286), and index.
LCCN	96068685
ISBN	1859283136

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