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Béla Bartók : a celebration / Benjamin Suchoff.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B26 S835 2004
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Suchoff, Benjamin.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945--Criticism and interpretation.
Bartók, Béla.
Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945.
Criticism and interpretation.
Physical Description:
xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Summary:
This compilation of essays, lectures, and scholarly papers on Bart-k studies from 1953 to the present includes insights obtained by the author over a half-century career as a Bart-k specialist.Divided into three parts, chapters examine Bart-k as a multifaceted music figure: composer, folklorist, pianist, and teacher. As composer, it includes program notes, an introduction to his principles of composition, and theoretic-analytical discussion of selected works, including Mikrokosmos. As folklorist, it examines the outcome of Bart-k's fieldwork, methodology, and findings in East European, Arabic, and Turkist autochthonous folk music materials. Bart-k's American years are also discussed. The narrative is supported by a substantial number of musical examples and references.
Contents:
Béla Bartók : a celebration
Bartók's fusion of national styles
Second string quartet : stylistic landmark
Impact of Italian baroque music on Bartók's music
History of Bartók's Mikrokosmos
Sixth string quartet : structure and concept
Genesis and development of the concerto for orchestra
Some observations on Bartók's third piano concerto
Folk-music sources in Bartḱ works
Ethnomusicological roots of Béla Bartók's musical language
Approaching Bartḱ's principles of composition
Preface to The Hungarian folk song
Bartḱ and Hungarian folk music
Slovak folk songs : music and politics
Bartók's Romanian folk music publication
Bartók and Yugoslav folk music
Preface to Turkish folk music from Asia Minor
Bartók as a man of letters
The Bartḱ-Kodály connection
Bartók in America
The New York Bartók archive : history and sources.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0810849585
OCLC:
52720751

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