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	Norsk Musikkinformasjon: Eivind Groven - Biography
		Eivind Groven (1901-1977) was born in Lårdal in western Telemark, a part of Norway rich in folk-music traditions.
		Groven devoted a great deal of effort to disseminating information on genuine folk music which had neither been transcribed nor made the subject of scientific study.
		As early as 1927, Groven published his thesis The Natural Scale, a pioneer work in which he examined the use of formulas in vocal and instrumental folk music that might have been derived from the scales and playing technique used on the willow flute.
	www.mic.no /mic.nsf/doc/art2002101120092910841840 (878 words)

	Tonalsoft Encyclopaedia of Tuning - Eivind Groven's schismic temperament, (c) 2004 Tonalsoft Inc.
		Groven's 1/8-skhisma-narrow "5th" may thus be notated as a prime-factor vector as follows:
		However, the 1/8-skhisma tempering of Groven's "5th" is only ~1/4-cent to begin with, and the error of 53edo from his "5th" is ~1/6-cent too large, whereas the 53edo "5th" is only ~1/12-cent narrower than the "pure" Pythagorean 3:2 "5th".
		If Groven was interested primarily in a method of notation for flexible-pitch instruments, such as voices or unfretted strings, he could in theory have extended the schismic chain indefinitely.
	sonic-arts.org /monzo/groven/groven.htm (1995 words)

	Portable pure tuning
		Groven was only thirteen years old when he encountered the problem of pure tuning while tuning a "toy harp".
		During 1939, Groven started work on a tone selection automat that could be controlled by impulses directly from the keyboard.
		The electronic organ was originally located in Eivind Groven's study at Ekeberg in "The lower house", where it was also made, but for a shorter time it was moved to Vålerenga Church in conjunction with a large concert organized around the capabilities of this organ.
	www.notam02.no /renstemming/grovens_loesning-e.html (649 words)

	Eivind Groven's pure-tuned organs
		Like Hermann Helmholtz, a scientist Groven was inspired of, he felt that the tempered sounds obscured the impression of the music "in the same way as an impure, rough pane of glass blurs the vision".
		Groven considered his work with the pure-tuned (or just intonation) organs as a an attempt to satisfy the sense of hearing, as a step closer to perfection.
		Eivind Groven wished to bring forth an instrument which could both assemble the irregular intervals which arose naturally within the folk music, and the just intonated scale for playing usual tonal and atonal music (f.ex.
	www.orgelhuset.org /en/orgel.htm (1103 words)

	Ta:lik - TA13 Eivind Mo - engelsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		TA 13 Eivind Mo Eivind Mo was born in Rauland, Telemark, 20 November 1904, to Gunnhild Kvåle (1872—1951) and Halvor Mo (1869—1949).
		During Eivind’s early years the Hardanger fiddle, or hardingfele, was still the dominant instrument for dance and listening music in the rural communities in Telemark.
		To learn how Groven influenced Eivind, we have to turn to other sources, the most important of which are the notations Olav Groven’s brother, the composer Eivind Groven, made of Olav’s tunes.
	www.talik.no /content/view/89/70 (2079 words)

	2001 Fulbright Scholar
		Eivind Groven is an important figure in Norwegian music history for his compositions, his documentation of traditional folk music, and his scholarly research.
		Eivind Groven (1901-1977) was a Norwegian composer and musicologist, as well as being highly skilled at playing both the hardingfele (Harding fiddle) and seljefløyte (willow flute).
		Groven's organ uses a standard keyboard manual to which each individual key can be connected to one of three possible pipes, each tuned to a slightly different pitch frequency.
	www.wmich.edu /mus-theo/groven/fulbright.html (3255 words)

	Portable pure tuning
		Eivind Grovens revolusjonerende opfinnelse patentert i en rekke land.", In: Tonekunst 17/18 (1934): 135-136.
		" - i den gryende morgentime - : Eivind Grovens arbeid med det renstemte orgelet i historisk og estetisk perspektiv." In: Studia Musicologica Norvegica, 23 (1997), 5-20.
		"Eivind Groven's pure-tuned organ in historical and aesthetic perspective".
	www.notam02.no /renstemming/ressurser-e.html (285 words)

	abstract 4-6
		In contrast to Grieg, Groven was born and raised within the strong folk tradition of Telemark and was widely respected for his research in this area.
		It was as a result of this clash of cultures that Groven resolved to construct a keyboard capable of playing in pure tuning, or just intonation, first experimenting with the piano, and later succeeding with a 36-tone organ which can automatically adjust the tuning dynamically during performance.
		Groven's organ uses a standard keyboard manual to which each individual key can be connected to one of three possible pipes each tuned to a slightly different frequency.
	www.utoronto.ca /conf2000/abs4-6.html (1026 words)

	Schismatic temperament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meantone tunings are often described in terms of what fraction of a syntonic comma the fifth has been flattened by; in the same way schismatic tunings can be described in terms of what fraction of a schisma the fifth is flattened--or even sharpened--by.
		Historically significant is the 1/8-schisma tuning of Hermann von Helmholtz and Norwegian composer Eivind Groven.
		Helmholtz's and Groven's systems get around some, but not all, of these difficulties by including multiple tunings for each key on the keyboard, so that a particular note can be tuned as Gb in some contexts and F# in others, for example.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schismatic_temperament (725 words)

	Eivind Groven - Orchestral Music [NH]: Classical CD Reviews- June2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Norwegian composer Eivind Groven is hardly a household name in this country and, for that matter, neither is Geirr Tveitt, although the Naxos label is trying its utmost to do something about the latter injustice.
		Groven was born in Lårdal in western Telemark, a part of Norway rich in folk-music traditions, and was a skilled exponent of both the Hardanger fiddle and the willow flute.
		Groven was steeped, at least as completely as the aforementioned Tveitt, and also Saeverud, in his native folk traditions, so it is unsurprising that the various peasant dances of the region loom large in his inspiration.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/Jun02/EivindGroven.htm (552 words)

	Sep 1998 Concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Groven demonstrated his charisma, versatility and musicality through a number of solo pieces in the first half - the serene Motlys (Against The Light) composed by himself which is inspired by the scenic midnight sun of Norway; Toledo, one of the most famous showpieces for harmonica for which Mr.
		Groven was born in Heddal, Telemark, Norway, into a musical family; his uncle, Eivind Groven was a famous composer.
		Groven scored a tremendous success at EXPO '92 in Sevilla, Spain, and during the 1993 Edvard Grieg celebrations he performed for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in Paris and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
	www.hkharmonica.org /khq/mirror/uc98.html (917 words)

	New kind of piano makes an otherworldly sound
		The Groven piano is actually four pianos, and all four were arranged on stage along with a shiny laptop that broadcast an image of its screen through a projector onto a larger screen.
		Groven wrote some compositions especially for a de-tempered keyboard, such as "Kivlemoyane." Code, playing a seljefloyte, or willow flute, and Roederer on the Groven piano performed this beautiful tune that sounded like it belonged to Scandinavian fairies who let Groven peek into their world just long enough to glimpse the melody.
		To showcase the Groven piano in concert with other instruments, there were three short performances led off by Roederer, Bradley Wong on clarinet and Igor Fedotov on viola playing a selection from Bruch's Opus 83 for clarinet, viola and piano.
	www.mlive.com /news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/kzgazette/special/gilmore/20020503gilmore_newpiano_feature.htm (933 words)

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		Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist Eivind Groven (1901-1977) spent much of his life's work striving to bridge the gap between his native folk music and Western classical music.
		The current project being undertaken by the Eivind Groven Institute, together with NoTAM (Norwegian network for Technology, Acoustics, and Music), is to replace the old electronic interface with a computer-operated system, the design of which I conceived.
		Groven himself constantly revised and refined his system, experimenting with both different scales (e.g., a 43-tone just scale) and different tuning criteria.
	www.wmich.edu /~mus-theo/groven/eg_orgel.html (1122 words)

	Eivind Groven's Organ house online
		At this occasion we are happy to present important sides of Eivind Groven`s multifaceted life and work.
		For more information about Eivind Groven`s organ house, we have a short presentation on its background, purpose, use and function.
		For a general overwiew of Eivind Groven`s life and work, try the timeline.
	www.orgelhuset.org /en (136 words)

	Preface 1
		We were, moreover, fortunate to secure the services of Bjørndal, Groven and Ørpen, all three collectors of folk music, as they are numbered among our best fiddlers.,and posses a wealth of fine old tradition.
		Eivind Groven was born and bred in Lårdal, Telemark.
		He comes from a long line of fiddlers, and learnt to play the fiddle as a boy, in a part of Norway which is unusually rich in slått tradition.
	www.hf.uio.no /imv/om-instituttet/nfs/felenett/traditio/thehardi/preface1.html (933 words)

	Svensk Konsertdirektion AB
		In 1990 Sigmund Groven made musical history, becoming one of the few harmonica players ever to be featured at Carnegie Hall with a classical recital of his own.
		Sigmund Groven was born in Heddal, Telemark, Norway, into a musical family; his uncle, Eivind Groven was a famous composer.
		Sigmund's interest in the harmonica was aroused at the age of nine upon hearing a record of the legendary Tommy Reilly, one of the pioneers of serious harmonica-playing, who became his source of inspiration as a musician.
	www.loddingkonsert.se /artists.asp?id=104 (608 words)

	sigmundgroven.com
		Sigmund Groven, like Tommy Reilly and Larry Adler before him, makes full use of the wide range and tonal expressions that the harmonica is capable of.
		He was born in Heddal, Telemark, Norway, into a musical family; his uncle, Eivind Groven, was a composer and musicologist.
		Sigmund’s interest in the harmonica was aroused at the age of nine upon hearing a record of the legendary harmonica pioneer, the late Tommy Reilly, who became his source of inspiration as a musician, his mentor, and close associate.
	www.hyperionwebs.com /sigmundgroven/biography.htm (812 words)

	SIGMUND GROVEN
		Sigmund Groven was born in Heddal, Telemark, Norway, into a musical family; his uncle, Eivind Groven, was a composer and musicologist.
		Sigmund Groven plays a custom-made silver concert harmonica and his repertoire ranges from popular and folk music to his own compositions, from Bach to original works for harmonica and orchestra by such composers as Villa-Lobos.
		Sigmund Groven er født i Heddal i Telemark i en musikalsk familie; komponisten og folkemusikkforskeren Eivind Groven var hans onkel.
	www.adlibitum.no /s_groven/start.php (1553 words)

	Records International NIM Supplment Apr 06
		Like Holmboe and Niels Viggo Bentzon, Groven was a champion of "extended variation" or "metamorphosis" compositional techniques.
		Groven, however, derived much of his theory from the Norwegian folk music (slåtter) he grew up with in his little village in Telemark.
		He never uses real folk motifs in his large-scale symphonic works so all of the folk-like material you will hear in both these works is original (a springar in the concerto's first movement, a laling in its second and a halling in the third).
	www.recordsinternational.com /NorwayInMusic.html (1589 words)

	Friend and artist - Eivind Groven
		The Norwegian composer Eivind Groven collaborated with Ingeborg for years, he wrote tunes to her texts, and stage music for performances.
		Eivind, you deserve to shake hands with both Wergeland and others you've given musical response.
		Eivind was married to Ingeborg's sister, Ragna Groven, who was educated singer and also performed his pieces.
	www.museumsnett.no /ingeborg/irh/17/plakat_en.htm (206 words)

	Preface vol 7
		It is a monument also to the three great collectors of folk music, Ame Bjørndal, Eivind Groven and Truls Ørpen, who, through half a century's search for and transcription of hardingfeleslåtter, had obtained a vast store of tunes and an insight that made the launching of this series possible.
		The three collectors - who were prominent fiddlers as well - constituted the editorial board, and it was natural to leave the selecting of the tunes for the series to them.
		Of the three, Eivind Groven came to acquire a central position, becoming in reality the chief editor for the music transeriptions.
	www.hf.uio.no /imv/om-instituttet/nfs/felenett/traditio/thehardi/prefac_1.html (807 words)

	David Code: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		In 2001, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and visiting professor at the University of Oslo, conducting research on composer and folk musician Eivind Groven.
		The performance, in the Little Theatre on the WMU campus, is a follow-up project to Code's extensive research into the life and technical innovations of Norwegian classical composer Eivind Groven.
		Code first demonstrated the new instrument in April 2001 at the Norwegian Academy of Music as part of centennial celebrations honoring Groven, who in addition to his work as a classical composer and musical inventor was a Norwegian folk musicologist.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/code_david_164422181.aspx (415 words)

	why is Harry Partch important?
		But all of these people were either pure theorists who composed little or no music (and none of it for concert performance), or they were instrument-builders.
		Carl Eitz, Shohei Tanaka, Thaddeus Cahill and Eivind Groven all built organs using the 53-tone equal tempered scale to approximate just intonation ratios.
		Worse, once someone went to the immense time and trouble of constructing an instrument in 19 or 31 or 53, the composer usually had so much effort and time invested in that one tuning that there was no time or energy left to explore other microtonal tunings (as Ivor Darreg has pointed out).
	sonic-arts.org /mclaren/partch/important.htm (4305 words)

	Norwegian Harmonica Player Sigmund Groven Performed in Belgrade (Norway - the official site in Serbia)
		This concert was yet another cultural event in Serbia and Montenegro that marked the centennial anniversary of the peaceful dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway.
		The very successful co-operation between the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra continued this year with a performance of the renowned Norwegian harmonica player Sigmund Groven in the hall of the Belgrade Philharmonics in early April 2005.
		As a composer in his own right Sigmund Groven received a commission for the Sesquicentennial of Norwegian emigration to America (”Blow, Silver Wind” with words by Erik Bye), and a commission from the Norsemen’s Federation to commemmorate Leiv Eiriksson’s discovery of America (”Vinland Suite”).
	www.norveska.org.yu /culture/music/classical/sigmundgroven.htm (827 words)

	Sigmund Groven - Til Telemark CD / cdRoots
		Harmonica is not the first instrument to enter most mnds when Norwegian music is mentioned, but Groven is at least allowing it to make the long list with his remarkable work on the instrument.
		Sigmund Groven output totals more than 300 works, including music for film, radio, and TV, and a number of songs and instrumental works.
		Twice he received the award ”Composition of the Year” from the Norwegian Association of Composers of which he was also appointed Honorary Member.
	www.cdroots.com /grcd-groven95.html (750 words)

	Groven Piano: Premiere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Groven-piano is modeled after a 36-tone pipe organ built by Norwegian composer Eivind Groven in the 1930's.
		To commemorate Groven's 100th anniversary year, the concert began with several of his own compositions: Grisilla, Rullemann, Balladetone, Gamle Fjell and Kivlemøyane.
		For these pieces the Groven-piano utilized a real-time tuning program which automatically regulated which pianos were in use during the performance to produce pure-tuned harmonies in every key.
	www.wmich.edu /~mus-theo/groven/konsert.html (421 words)

	WNRI - Kyrre Groven
		Kyrre Groven, Project member(s): Eivind Brendehaug (Project manager),
		Otto Andersen, Eivind Brendehaug, Kyrre Groven, Karl Georg Høyer,
		Otto Andersen, Kyrre Groven, Eivind Brendehaug, med flere,
	www.vestforsk.no /english/employee.asp?nettid=kgr (747 words)

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