"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

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND

 

PART I  (ATTITUDES, IMAGES, DUOLOGUES, LISTENING)

 

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I LISTEN: ...YES, THIS IS OLAV HEGGLAND

OUTLINE OF A UNIVERSE

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DUOLOGUE ON 'NATIONS'

NATION AND IDENTITY

HEY HO

THE STEADY AND THE ORNAMENTAL 

MACRO PULSES

'NOODLING'

PROJECTION

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I LISTEN: ...SHORT BREATH IN

DUOLOGUE ON 'AVSTANDSRISS'

MEMORY TRACES

PLAYING AS LISTENING 

VEIL

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THRICE OVER THE RIVER

MASK

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DUOLOGUE ON 'SOLSPILL'

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'

SKETCH OF AESTHETICS

VARIABILITY

ASYMMETRICAL RHYTHM

FLEXIBLE INTONATION

THE MYTHICAL

ORIGIN

APPENDIX

ON ARTISTIC RESEARCH

ABOUT INGFRID BREIE NYHUS

DISCOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CODA 

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