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Nordic Music Archive
The Nordic Music Archive was established at Ohio State University in 1987 at the invitation of the eminent choral director Norman Luboff, a friend of OSU. It consists primarily of scores and recordings by contemporary composers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, though composers from previous periods are well represented. Most of the materials have been, and continue to be, donated by the music information centers and major publishing houses in these countries. Nordic Music Archive materials circulate under standard local and interlibrary loan rules. All Nordic Archive materials are cataloged to AACR2 standards on OCLC, and also appear in the OSU Library Catalog.
The scores are located in their own reserve shelving area and are organized according to the Library of Congress classification system; the recordings are interfiled in our Media Center collections. The OSU Library Catalog may be searched by call number, author (composers and performers), title, subject (form/genre), and keyword. For information, contact Stephen Long, Curator, Nordic Music Archive (long.29@osu.edu) or Alan Green, Head, Music/Dance Library (green.200@osu.edu), or fax 614-247-6794.
Nordic Composers (alphabetical list) Nordic Composers (by country)
Information centers and other sites
- Finnish Music Information Center
- Iceland Music Information Center
- Norwegian Music Information Center
- Swedish Music Information Center
- Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare (Society of Swedish Composers)
- Intervalli (Finnish music library quarterly)
- STIM - Swedish Composers' International Music Bureau
Publishers
- Samfundet (Society for the Publication of Danish Music)
- Gehrmans
- Fennica Gehrman (administers Fazer and Warner/Chappell Music Finland)
- Wilhelm Hansen
CD labels
Sweden
Finland
Denmark
Norway
International, with strong Nordic list
Composer biographies and work lists
- Swedish Music Information Center. Biographies (in Swedish and English) and virtually complete, up-to-date work lists of over 200 Swedish composers. Detailed annotations for individual works. Work lists include published scores, manuscripts, and sound recordings, including LPs. Click "Contemporary Classical," and then choose links to composer biographies, lists of works, or descriptions of works.
- Finnish Music Information Center. Profiles in Finnish and English, full-text articles (with English translations), work lists, bibliographies, discographies, and photographs of over 125 composers.
- Norwegian Music Information Center. Biographies in Norwegian and English of nearly 100 composers.
- Iceland Music Information Center. Biographies and detailed work lists (in Icelandic only).
- Samfundet (Society for the Publication of Danish Music). Short biographies of contemporary composers.
- DaCapo Records. Biographies of Danish composers represented in the DaCapo CD catalog. Click "Classical," and then use the dialog box for "Classical composers."
Nordic Composers (alphabetical list)
Kalevi Aho
Jouni Kaipainen
Magnus Lindberg
- Connect to Lindberg's "Kraft" in the OSU Library Catalog, including CDs, a score, and a textbook that features a commentary on the piece
- Magnus Lindberg on "Kraft"
- Alan Gilbert on Magnus Lindberg (You Tube video)
- Alan Gilbert on Magnus Lindberg's "Kraft"
Arne Nordheim
Poul Ruders
Wilhelm Hansen
Kaija Saariaho
Chester Novello
Finnish Music Information Center
IRCAM
Petals
Aulis Sallinen
Chester Novello
Finnish Music Information Center
Olav Anton Thommessen
Lasse Thoresen
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
- Anna Thorvaldsdottir's master's thesis: Music and Ideas
- Anna Thorvaldadottir's doctoral dissertaion: Aeriality - Music for Orchestra
Haukur Tómasson
Geirr Tveitt
Fartein Valen
Rolf Wallin
Denmark
Poul Ruders
Finland
Kalevi Aho
Jouni Kaipainen
Magnus Lindberg
Kaija Saariaho
- Chester Novello
- Finnish Music Information Center
- IRCAM
- Petals
- Connect to Saariaho's "Lichtbogen" in the OSU Library catalog, including CDs and a score
Aulis Sallinen
Iceland (alphabetized by first name)
- Anna Thorvaldsdottir's master's thesis: Music and Ideas
- Anna Thorvaldadottir's doctoral dissertaion: Aeriality - Music for Orchestra
Norway
Arne Nordheim
Sweden
Faroes Islands
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