245 10 |a Nordic art music : |b from the Middle Ages to the third millennium / |c Frederick Key Smith.

504 __ |a Includes discography (p. [157]-174), bibliographical references (p. [179]-183), and index.

505 00 |t Introduction: The Nordic Microcosm -- |t Early Art Music in Northern Europe -- |t The Middle Ages -- |t The Renaissance -- |t The Baroque Era -- |t Nordic Music in the Classical Era -- |t Opera -- |t Instrumental and Vocal Works -- |t Art Songs -- |t Nordic Romanticism -- |t In the Wake of Napoleon -- |t The Danish Golden Age Continues -- |t Finland in the Romantic Era -- |t Pianist and Poet: Edvard Grieg -- |t Into the Modern Era -- |t Among the Three Masters -- |t Orchestral Masters: Nielsen and Sibelius -- |t In the Shadow of Sibelius -- |t The Last of the Scandinavian Romantics -- |t Northern Europe in the Modern Era -- |t National Romantics and Romantic Modernists -- |t Neo-Classicists, Serialists, and Their Contemporaries -- |t Old Complexities and New Simplicities -- |t Contemporary Trends and Nordic Composers -- |t Acoustic Masterworks -- |t Electro-Acoustic Music in Northern Europe -- |t Glossary of Nordic Folk Music.