Music and Nationalism in 20th-century Great Britain and Finland
Edited by Tomi Makela
These essays are based on papers given at a symposion of the Finnish Institute, London (December 14-15, 1992)
von Bockel Verlag Hamburg 1997 Contents
Editorial
Nationality and Nationalism in the Arts
Towards a Theory of Internationalism, Europeanism, Nationalism and 'Co-Nationalism' in 20th-century Music Tomi Mdkeld . 9
Personal Style, Impersonal Structure? Music Analysis and Nationality Arnold Whittall 17
Nationalism is not Enough: A Composer's Perspective Peter Dickinson 27
Beyond Nationalism Ilkka Oramo 35
Music, Nationality and Society Kalevi Aho 45
Facets of Britishness
The Allure of Distant Strains: Musical Receptiveness of the Anglo-Saxon Erkki Toivanen 53
National Parallels in the Orchestral Works of Jean Sibelius and Arnold Bax: Focusing on Their Symphonic Language Gunnar Sundberg ,. 59
English Musical Character: Intrinsic or Learned? Lewis Foreman 65 Scottish Music, Real and Spurious Raymond Monelle 87 • Aspects of Scottish Musical Nationalism in the 20th Century, with special reference t6 the Music of F. G. Scott, Ronald Center and Ronald Stevenson Malcolm MacDonald JJJ
Musical Nationalism in Ireland in the Twentieth Century: Complexities and Contradictions Jeremy Dibble 133
'Getting its History Wrong': English Nationalism and the Reception of Ralph Vaughan Williams Alain Frogley 145
To be a 20th-century 'Finn'
How Modernism Came to Finland? An Exposition of the History of Ideas Matti Vainio 163
Finnish Music in the 20s and 30s: Internationalism vs. Nationalism Erkki Salmenhaara 175
The Main Trend in Finnish Music in the 1970s and 1980s and the Problem of 'Finnishness' Mikko Heinio 183
Nationalism in Leevi Madetoja's Operatic Works Kauko Karjalainen 191 The Solitary Way of Uuno Klami Helena Tyrvainen 199
Writing about Music
Nationalistic and Non-Nationalistic Views of Sibelius in 20th-century Finnish Music History Writing Matti Huttunen 217
An "old eminence among musical nations". Nationalism and the Case for a Musical History in Ireland Axel Klein 233