Carl Nielsen: Man and the Music. Edited by Knud Ketting. Production by AM-MultiMedia; Per Kyed Laursen, producer. Copenhagen: Edition Wilhelm Hansen, 1998. DKr 295. CD-ROM. ISBN 87-986907-0-1. Requires PC with 66 MHz 486 DX2 processor (100 MHz Pentium recommended) with 8 MB RAM, Windows 95 or NT 4.0 (Servicepack 3), graphics card with 1 MB RAM, 800 X 600 pixels color monitor, 16-bit sound card, 4x CD-ROM drive. A number of prestigious Danish organizations cooperated in the production of Carl Nielsen: Man and the Music: the Danish Information Centre, the Odense City Museums, the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Orfeus, and AM-MultiMedia in Aalborg. Knud Ketting, editor of in Denmark (Copenhagen: Danske selskab, 1987), served as editor-in-chief. He had the assistance of a number of scholars and researchers whose books were the source of much of the information gathered here. information is extensive and reliable and is provided in both English and Danish. There are four main divisions: The Man, Music, Documentation, and Practical Guide.' The Man, the biographical division, comprises what the accompanying brochure calls 115 illustrated articles. They are, in fact, not genuine articles but rather subdivisions of a fairly contiguous whole. Each article contains two to five screens of text, often including a picture and sometimes a relevant forty-second sample of music. this context, the sound examples provide an excellent addition: technology serving to extend the traditional book format. biography provides facts, information, and interesting anecdotes from Nielsen's life and is both readable and accurate. (One discovers that Knud Ketting is the author of this biography only after a thorough search of the CDROM.) In Perspective, one of the essays in the Music division, is divided into eight sections (again, referred to as articles). It is written by David Fanning, author of Nielsen, Symphony No. 5 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), although his name does not appear on the essay. When read as a whole, the essay does a remarkable job of covering Nielsen's unusually complex position at the beginning of the twentieth century-being both ahead and behind the main artistic currents of the rest of Europe. In Perspective is followed by Notes on Works, which consists of individual descriptions of fifty-seven works. Each description covers the work's genesis and provides a brief analysis. No score or sound examples are included to illustrate analytical points, although occasionally there is a reproduction of a manuscript page, a first-performance program, or a page from a printed score. eight authors of these short descriptions are identified only by their initials, and the descriptions vary according to each author's interests and methods. Ketting has chosen not to impose unity on the section; thus reading straight through serves little purpose. A summary essay of Nielsen's musical style would have been a strong addition here. concluding sections of the Music division are bibliographies of works and manuscripts. Works is a worklist (containing 258 entries) derived from Carl Nielsen, kompositioner: En bibliografi, by Dan Fog and Torben Schousboe (Copenhagen: Nyt Nordisk Forlag, 1965). 1965 material has been revised and updated by Ketting for the CD-ROM, and where relevant, each entry is cross-referenced to the Biography, Notes, Manuscripts, and Discography sections. list of works contains information on composition dates, first performances, first editions, later editions, and so on. Manuscripts, with 424 entries, is built around the catalog of the Copenhagen Royal Library Nielsen manuscripts, Carl Nielsens samling: Katalog over komponistens musikhandskrifter i Det Kongelige Bibliotck by Birgit Bjornum and Klaus Mollerhoj (Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Bibliotek; Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 1992). …