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Draumkvedet
"Draumkvedet" ("The Dream Poem"; Norske mellomalderballadar, NMB 54, The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad, TSB B 31) is a Norway, Norwegian visionary poem, probably dated from the late medieval age.Knut Liestøl: "Draumkvedet. A Visionary Poem from the Middle Ages", ''Studia Norvegica 3, 1946''"The Dream Lay" – ''Listen to Norway, Vol.9 - 2001 No. 1'' (Retrieved on February 18, 2008) It is one of the best known medieval ballads in Norway. The first written versions are from Lårdal and Kviteseid in Telemark in the 1840s. The protagonist, Olav Åsteson, falls asleep on Christmas Eve and sleeps until Twelfth Night (holiday), the twelfth day of Christmas. Then he wakes, and rides to church to recount his dreams to the congregation, about his journey through the afterlife. The events are in part similar to other m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Nordheim
Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 – 5 June 2010) was a Norwegian composer. Nordheim received numerous awards for his compositions, and from 1982 lived in the Norwegian government's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. He was elected an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1997. On 18 August 2006, Arne Nordheim received a doctor honoris causa degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He died at the age of 78 and was given a state funeral. Musical education At the then Oslo Conservatory of Music (now the Norwegian Academy of Music), where Nordheim studied from 1948 to 1952, he started out as a theory and organ student, but changed to composition, studying with Karl August Andersen (1903–1970), Bjarne Brustad, and Conrad Baden. Then in 1955 he studied with Vagn Holmboe in Copenhagen, and studied ''musique concrète'' in Paris. Later he studied electronic music in Bilthoven (1959), and paid many visits to the Studio Ekspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
