music analysis

"Although music analysis research, measured as a percentage of Finnish musicological studies, may have declined in the past decades due to changes in paedagogics, performing arts and culture, it has also become more diverse and attained a very high level of quality, to the point of being at the cutting edge."

Paavo Heininen got down to a serious composing career, geared from the outset towards large works, at a relatively early age. This beginning came in the late 1950s, when both dodecaphony and its historical offspring serialism were making their entry into the Finnish musical arena. The newcomers encountered stern resistance: the fact that a couple of composers had determined to use the new method in no sense meant that musical life in general was ready to welcome the fresh ideas with open arms.