"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.
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
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