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The Iceland music It includes the musical expressions made by the people born and live on the European Island of Iceland, or by the nationals of that country in other places. The first musical production records are from the year 1000. At present, singers Björk and Emilíaa Torrini, the Sigur Rós, of Monsters and Men, Múm and Seabear groups are known internationally, and composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

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The first musical references of Island Island Datan of the year 1000, after the Christianization of the island. The old Edda was interpreted in a popular recitative. The Catholic priests introduced the artistic interpretation of the ecclesiastical songs, and after 1550 the Protestant choral song was practiced. It is characteristic of the execution of a choral melodic nucleus with paraphrase melismatics, consisting of children’s songs and the call narrative dance , as well as by heroic poems and great epic, the latter performed by epic singers, who in winter moved from one court to another.

It is a remarkable fact of organal practice (parallel fifths), today in extinction. This harmonic art was only practiced by men and is the only example of Icelandic polyphony. The folk instruments were the Langspil, provided with disruption (similar to the Cígeleik Norway Arc cyst), and the fidula, both rubbed with arc.

During romanticism an Icelandic cultured music originated, which has developed considerably during the century XX , and tries to evolve from Icelandic folk reality, but without losing the connection with the advances of contemporary music. In this sense, the contribution of Russian director and pianist Vladimir Áshkenazi has been important.

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Currently, singer Björk is known internationally. She evolved since the age of 10 and made Islandia known thanks to The Sugarcubes group, a band that combined pop with the rock and the punk . After the band dissolved, Björk followed his musical career as a soloist. In the Icelandic music is also Sigur Rós, one of the bands of rock alternative and post rock most important experimental in the world.

According to the Icelandic Records seal, the of Monsters and Men Group is the best known since Björk and Sigur Rós. Your album My Head Is an Animal , and the single “Little Talks” reached high positions worldwide. In 2013 they won the European Border Breakers Awards. In 2014, the Trusti did the same, which has opened market doors in the United States and Europe. The singer and songwriter Emiliana Torrini is in turn a consecrated artist. His song “Jungle Drum” of the 2008 album Me and Armini It was number one in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Iceland. His latest album Tookah , 2013, entered the top 50 in several countries.

Other artists with international acknowledgments are the group of electropop FM Belfast, as well as Solley singers and composers without Fang, who are the founders of the Seabean group.

Alternative, Metal and Tecno [ To edit ]

The Solstafir metal band is widely known internationally. His first album, in blood and spirit , it went on the market in 2002 on the Ars Metalli label, but the record was published shortly after. They have published two more study albums, Masterpiece of Bitterness and Cold . The instrumental band of post rock and of rock Alternative for Minor Reflection is widely known since he accompanied Sigur Rós on a tour in 2009. The group of tecno house Gusgus has taken nine studio albums, the last one entitled Mexico and published in June 2014.

In 2011, the Harpa building was inaugurated in Reykiavik, which houses the Iceland and Icelandic opera. ^{[ first ]} ​

Iceland participates every year at the Eurovision Song Festival since 1986. Despite never having won the contest, it is one of the countries that most faithfully follow the festival, reaching screen quotas of practically 100% follow -up. ^{[ 2 ]} Iceland was classified in second position in 1999 with Selma Björnsdóttir and in 2009 with Yohanna. Some of the most popular singers and bands in the country have participated in the festival, such as Jonsi, Hatari or Daði Freyr. Icelandic public television organizes the SöngVakeppnin festival every year, composed of several semifinals and final, to choose its representative.

In 2021 Netflix premiered the film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga Partially shot in Iceland and whose plot consists in the participation of the country in the festival. His main theme obtained a nomination to Oscar for best original song ( “Husavik” ), Being the first song with lyrics in Icelandic to be nominated by the American Film Academy.

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