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Béla Bartok's 1907 violin concerto : genesis and fate / Alicja Usarek-Topper.
LIBRA ML410.B26 U93 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Usarek-Topper, Alicja, author.
- Series:
- Sources and studies in music history from antiquity to the present ; v. 50.
- Sources and studies in music history from antiquity to the present ; v. 50
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945. Concertos--violin, orchestra--no. 1.
- Bartók, Béla.
- Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945.
- Composers--Hungary--Biography.
- Composers.
- Concertos (Violin).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Hungary.
- Concertos (Violin)--Analysis, appreciation.
- Concertos (Violin)--History and criticism.
- Concertos (Bartók, Béla).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 152 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, music ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Genesis and fate
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2021]
- Summary:
- "The genesis and genius of Bartók's Concerto was mingled with his love for Stefi Geyer. As Hungarian Tristan pursuing his Isolde, he sounds allusions to Wagner's paean of unfulfilled love. In transposing the ideal into the real, Bartók enlists folk sources voicing pristine truths of peasants. While biography and Tristan allusions supply the keys to Stefi's Concerto, the Tristan grief motif serves as bridge from idealized romance to the pentatonic simplicity of peasant realism. In these tensions private love and public life, and esoteric romance and raw worldliness are provoked and reconciled. The rise and fall of living romance and its musical mirroring against peasant scales and rhythms is background to "Tristan" ruling a score that incites and resolves the clash of two conflicting worlds"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- 1907
- Béla and Stefi : auspicious beginnings
- Béla and Stefi : coda of anguish
- Béla and Stefi : an unendurable farewell
- Béla and Stefi : in the spirit of Tristan
- Form and poetic content
- Stefi's leitmotif : variants and transformations
- Chain of thirds as nonfunctional vehicle for leitmotivic progression.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3034335741
- 9783034335744
- OCLC:
- 1224160873
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