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Béla Bartók
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Béla Bartók

Overview: This compilation of essays, lectures, and scholarly papers on Bartok studies from 1953 to the present includes insights obtained by the author over a half-century career as a Bartok specialist. Divided into three parts, chapters examine Bartok 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 Bartok's fieldwork, methodology, and findings in East European, Arabic, and Turkist autochthonous folk music materials. Bartok's American years are also discussed. The narrative is supported by a substantial number of musical examples and references.

Essays
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 608

Essays

The world knows Béla Bartók as a composer. The essays contained in this voluminous compilation disclose a side of the great Hungarian previously known to relatively few persons: Bartók the man of letters. Theorist, performer, collector, scholar, and composer, Béla Bartók is internationally renowned as one of the most important and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Throughout his life he wrote lectures and essays that dealt with virtually every aspect of European music. These essays, previously scattered in specialized journals, deal with the wide range of interests and expertise: folk music and musical folklore, the music of his contemporaries and great predecessors, a brief autobiography, the structure and performance of his own music, the sale of sound recordings, and music education.

The Life and Music of Béla Bartók
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

The Life and Music of Béla Bartók

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  • Published: 1968
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Béla Bartók
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 114

Béla Bartók

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1938
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Stage Works of Béla Bartók
  • Language: en

The Stage Works of Béla Bartók

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. A product of Hungary s political ferment at the start of the 20th century, Bela Bartok s works couple his determination to participate in Western art movements with an enthusiasm for the folk traditions of a disappearing world. In this introduction to Bartok s stage works, Julian Grant describes the score for "Duke Bluebeard s Castle," a symbolist version of the Bluebeard myth. Included in this volume are also his ballet scenarios, and discussions of the choreographic potential and musical qualities of the scores. Ferenc Bonis indicates the appeal for Bartok of the natural world, against the cataclysm of World War I. Together, these works give an insight into issues of sexuality, humanity, and creativity."

The Music of Béla Bartók
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

The Music of Béla Bartók

The basic principles of progression and the means by which tonality is established in Bartók's music remain problematical to many theorists. Elliott Antokoletz here demonstrates that the remarkable continuity of style in Bartók's evolution is founded upon an all-encompassing system of pitch relations in which one can draw together the diverse pitch formations in his music under one unified set of principles.

Béla Bartók - the American Years
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Béla Bartók - the American Years

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1970
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Refusing to remain in his native land under Nazi occupation, the Hungarian composer and folk-musicologist Béla Bartók came with his wife to America in 1940. This book explores the composer's background and gives insights into the whole nature of the creative process.

Béla Bartók
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 534

Béla Bartók

This second edition ofBela Bartok: A Guide to Researchpresents a concisely detailed history of Bartok's musical development, a catalogue of his compositions according to genre (including basic data on Bartok's publishers, achives, library collections, and catalogues), and 1200 annotated primary and secondary sources. A decade of scholarship since the first edition (1988) is included; over forty percent of the material in the second edition is new. Four indexes cover listings by author and title; Bartok's compositions and his editions and transcriptions of earlier keyboard works; proper names; and subjects. Primary sources include: Bartok's own essays, articles, lectures on folk music and art...

Béla Bartok
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Béla Bartok

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995-01-07
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Béla Bartók's work set in the context of his homeland Hungary.

Bela Bartok and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Bela Bartok and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest

Bartók's music is greatly prized by concertgoers, yet we know little about the intellectual milieu that gave rise to his artistry. Bartók is often seen as a lonely genius emerging from a gray background of an "underdeveloped country." Now Judit Frigyesi offers a broader perspective on Bartók's art by grounding it in the social and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Hungary and the intense creativity of its modernist movement. Bartók spent most of his life in Budapest, an exceptional man living in a remarkable milieu. Frigyesi argues that Hungarian modernism in general and Bartók's aesthetic in particular should be understood in terms of a collective search for wholeness in life and ar...