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Music of Norway

Folk music from Norway is usually in minor or modal, making a sober and haunting sound, though major key dance music forms also exist.

Some types of music developed in Norway

fiddle music (Hardingfeleverket[?], Feleverket[?]) - Norway has a distinctive type of fiddle called the Hardanger
wind music[?][1] (http://www.wasbe.org/en/resources/norway1) (Ole Olsen[?], Oscar Borg[?], Alfred Evensen[?], Adolf Hansen[?] and Johannes Hansen[?])
Norwegian death metal

The most famous Norwegian classical composer is Edvard Grieg. The 20th century composer Geirr Tveitt[?] incorporated folk music elements into his work.

Some music artists or groups from Norway:

Today Norway's main musical export is black metal, mainly:

Norwegian music has generally been appearing on the international scene after year 2000, initally a breakthrough by Norwegian jazz and black metal artists, then followed by electronica and pop artists. The Rune Grammofon[?] record label has gained some renown for releasing experimental Nowegian music.