Accordion in art music in Finland - An unprecedented succes story
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Komponist: RANTANEN, M.
Inhalt: Vorwort. I. Towards The Art: 1. Art, Artistry and Contemporary Music. 2. Towards the Artistry - the first generation. 3. The Golden Age and the war years. 4. Finnish Accordion Championships. 5. International Accordion Competitions. 6. Structural Development of the Accordion into an Instrument of Art Music. 7. The Pioneer Mogens Ellegaard. 8. A New Cultural Politics. 9. Fervent Discussion of the Accordion. 10. The Finnish Broadcasting Company and the Accordion. II. New Accordion Music: 1. Developments in Playing Technique. 2. Interpretational conflicts. 3. The Accordion and Composers in the 1950's and 1960's. 4. Virtuoso works building bridges. 5. The first "art" works. 6. Establishing contact with composers. III. Finnish Works for Accordion: 1. Stylistic diversity I - Tiensuu, Jokinen, Velpola, Wessman. 2. Stylistic diversity II - Lindberg, Aho, Nordgren, Kaipainen, Nevanlinna. 3. Stylistic diversity III: Vuori, Kuusisto, Haapamäki, Kortekangas. 4. Accordion players as composers. 5. Extended soundscape I: Accordion and electronics. 6. Extended soundscape II: Veli Kuja and the quartertone accordion. 7. Extended soundscape III: New folk music. IV. The Accordion in Concert: 1. At the mercy of the critics. 2. Other criticism. 3. Focus on recordings. 4. Exponents of the "Artistic Accordion". 5. From the national to international. Appendix I: A selection of other important works for the accordion. Appendix II: Finnish accordionists who have garnered succes in competitions in Finland and abroad.
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