Introduction: Enticements

Enticements The opening ‘Kulokk’ from Grieg’s 19 Norske Folkeviser, Op. 66, forms a fittingly sonorous starting point for this late piano collection of 1896-7. A miniature of particular yet unassuming beauty, the apparent simplicity of this piece is deceptive. Within its brief twenty bars this example contains many of the distinctive elements that make up Grieg’s mature harmonic style (Ex. 0.1a).