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Lansing D. McLoskey. Twentieth-Century Danish Music: An Annotated Biblio,graphyand Research Directory. Music Reference Collection 65. Westport: Greenwood Press, I998. Pp. i-XXVi + ISo.
A country that can boast one active, contemporary "classical" composer for every zo,ooo or so citizens clearly deserves the sort of profile-raising attention Lansing McLoskey intends to give it. Something is rightful in the state of Denmark, when their highly subsidized musical education and performance structure has been able to create a climate so favorable to the intellectually demanding and elite nature of the creation of serious modern music. McLoskey's bibliography should have a given place in major music libraries, where it may help music students and musicologists to search out more about Denmark's remarkable achievement. In particular, American musicians and musicologists who have run across major figures such as Vagn Holmboe, Per Norgard, Ib Norholm, or Knudige Riisager will find numerous valuable sources to deepen their understanding. More items than one might have expected are in...