"A Play with Traditions" is a doctoral fellowship conducted 2011-2016 by Ingfrid Breie Nyhus at The Norwegian Programme of Artistic Research and The Norwegian Academy of Music.
A PLAY WITH TRADITIONS // INDEX

Photo above: Filipe Ferraria

PART I (ATTITUDES, IMAGES, DUOLOGUES, LISTENING)
I LISTEN: ...YES, THIS IS OLAV HEGGLAND
NATION AND IDENTITY
HEY HO
THE STEADY AND THE ORNAMENTAL
MACRO PULSES
'NOODLING'
MEMORY TRACES
PLAYING AS LISTENING
VEIL
BEFORE
AFTER
I LISTEN: ...ORNAMENTS ARE BREATHED

A Play with Traditions
- Interpreting and Performing Between Folk and Pianism
Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, pianist
PART II (CONSIDERATIONS, PROCESSES, CONTEXT)
2.1 BETWEEN FOLK AND PIANISM
2.1.1 FOLK MUSIC AND ART MUSIC
2.1.2 WITH FOLK MUSIC AS INSPIRATION
2.1.3 A FOLK MUSICAL AESTHETIC?
2.2 CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
2.2.1 PERFORMER AND COMPOSER
2.2.2 'NATIONS': RECOGNITION
2.2.3 'ABSTRACTION IN FOLK ART': JUXTAPOSITIONS
2.2.4 'AVSTANDSRISS': MULTIVOICEDNESS
2.2.5 INCENTIVE
2.3 FOLK MUSICAL INTERPRETATION
2.3.1 INTERPRETING AND 'TRADITIONING'
2.3.2 'FOSSEGRIMEN': AXIS
2.3.3 'SOLSPILL': OUTLINE
2.3.4 'VILLARKORN': AS IF IT WERE FOLK MUSIC
2.3.5 RULES AND LEEWAY
2.4 PIANISTIC 'TRADITIONING'
2.4.1 BLACKS AND WHITES
2.4.2 'SLÅTTEPIANO': FOLK MUSIC ON THE PIANO
2.4.3 PAST AND FUTURE
2.5 EPILOGUE
'BUDSTIKKE'
APPENDIX