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Music of the nations
Folk songs, dances and landscapes, from Liszt's Hungary to Márquez's Mexico.
Liszt → Smetana → Grieg → Albéniz → Dvořák → Sibelius → Elgar → Williams → Janáček → Villa-Lobos → Rodrigo → Márquez
Finlandia, Op. 26
This guide follows Sibelius’s Finlandia, Op. 26 (1899) in one part.
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Follow all 8 sections as they play
Finlandia0:32–8:16
The / is a dark, heavy for the brass, answered by quiet woodwinds and then strings. The builds tension with sharp, repeated brass rhythms over timpani, and the (A′) breaks out into a bright, driving for full orchestra. In the B / Hymn section everything calms: the Finlandia hymn is sung first by the woodwinds and then by the strings. The (A′), and in the the brass proclaim a broad, hymn-like before the final chords in A-flat major.
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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