Music A-Level
Nationalism and folk influences
What Nationalism and folk influences means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Grieg's piano works are heavily influenced by Norwegian folk music, using modal inflections, drone basses and rhythmic motifs derived from traditional dances.
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