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Title

Inspired by tradition : Kalevala poetry in Finnish music.

Publication

[Finland?] : Finnish Music Information Center Fimic, ©2004 : Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy, [2005], ℗2005.

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Additional Authors

• Laaksonen, Pekka.
• Leisiö, Timo, 1946-
• Ruhkala, Helena.
• Käppi, Pekko.
• Häyrynen, Antti.
• Silas, Petri.
• Tolvanen, Hannu.
• Knuuti, Samuli.
• Riekki, Matti.

Description

151 pages; 21 cm

Subjects

• Music and literature
• Folk poetry, Finnish
• Songs, Finnish
• Epic poetry, Finnish
• Kalevala

Contents

Part I: Introduction to Kalevala poetry. From oral tradition to national epic: about the poetry, the collecting and Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala (Pekka Laaksonen) (p. 11) ; Stylistic elements of runo song (Timo Leisiö) (p. 30) -- Part II: Kalevala poetry in Finnish folk music. The runo code: the Finnish epic folk song tradition in Finland (Timo Leisiö) (p. 41) ; The kantele: from the jaw of a pike to electric amplification (Timo Leisiö and Helena Ruhkala) (p. 56) ; Ancient voices in the firmament of new folk music (Pekko Käppi) (p. 60) -- Part III: Kalevala poetry in Finnish classical music (Antti Häyrynen) (p. 66) -- Part IV: Kalevala poetry in Finnish jazz (Petri Silas) (p. 116) -- Part V: Kalevala poetry in Finnish popular music. On the Kalevala tradition in Finnish popular music before the 1970s (Hannu Tolvanen) (p. 124) ; "It's the language that you see:" the importance of the Kalevala in contemporary Finnish rock (Samuli Knuuti) (p. 132) ; From the smithy of Ilmarinen: Kalevala and heavy metal (Matti Riekki) (p. 139).

ISBN

9525076458

OCLC

• ocm59228443
• SCSB-5160735

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries