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Author : Agatha Fassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844600925
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Bela Bartok - the American Years written by Agatha Fassett and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agatha Fassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Béla Bartók - the American Years written by Agatha Fassett and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Peter Laki
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006338
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Bartók and His World written by Peter Laki and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Béla Bartók, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a rapidly growing critical and analytical literature. Bartók was born in Hungary and made his home there for all but his last five years, when he resided in the United States. As a result, many aspects of his life and work have been accessible only to readers of Hungarian. The main goal of this volume is to provide English-speaking audiences with new insights into the life and reception of this musician, especially in Hungary. Part I begins with an essay by Leon Botstein that places Bartók in a large historical and cultural context. László Somfai reports on the catalog of Bartók's works that is currently in progress. Peter Laki shows the extremes of the composer's reception in Hungary, while Tibor Tallián surveys the often mixed reviews from the American years. The essays of Carl Leafstedt and Vera Lampert deal with his librettists Béla Balázs and Melchior Lengyel respectively. David Schneider addresses the artistic relationship between Bartók and Stravinsky. Most of the letters and interviews in Part II concern Bartók's travels and emigration as they reflected on his personal life and artistic evolution. Part III presents early critical assessments of Bartók's work as well as literary and poetic responses to his music and personality.
Author : Agatha Fassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Bela Bartok - the American Years written by Agatha Fassett and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agatha Fassett
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Naked Face of Genius written by Agatha Fassett and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1958 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Bela Bartok's life in the United States. Includes catalog of his works.
Author : Agatha Fassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Béla Bartók written by Agatha Fassett and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David Cooper
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300148771
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Bela Bartók written by David Cooper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the life and music of Hungary's greatest twentieth-century composer This deeply researched biography of Béla Bartók (1881-1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David Cooper traces Bartók's international career as an ardent ethno-musicologist and composer, teacher, and pianist, while also providing a detailed discussion of most of his works. Further, the author explores how Europe's political and cultural tumult affected Bartók's work, travel, and reluctant emigration to the safety of America in his final years. Cooper illuminates Bartók's personal life and relationships, while also expanding what is known about the influence of other musicians--Richard Strauss, Zoltán Kodály, and Yehudi Menuhin, among many others. The author also looks closely at some of the composer's actions and behaviors which may have been manifestations of Asperger syndrome. The book, in short, is a consummate biography of an internationally admired musician.
Author : Elliott Antokoletz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135845409
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Béla Bartók written by Elliott Antokoletz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research guide is an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources and catalogue of Bartók’s compositions. Since the publication of the second edition, a wealth of information has been proliferating in the field of Bartók research. The third edition of this research guide provides an update in this field and represents the multidisciplinary research areas in the growing Bartók literature.
Author : Benjamin Suchoff
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810840768
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Béla Bartók written by Benjamin Suchoff and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David Yeomans
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213839
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Bartók for Piano written by David Yeomans and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . detailed and thorough . . . a wealth of information . . . David Yeomans deserves our thanks for a job exceedingly well done." —American Music Teacher " . . . a must for pianists . . . " —American Reference Book Annual "David Yeomans's study is certainly to be recommended for all good music libraries, pianists and students of Bartók." —The Music Review "Although there are currently more than 15 books in print about composer Béla Bartók, this short volume is unique in its focus on his complete oeuvre for solo piano. . . . Recommended for pianists, piano teachers, and students from lower-division undergraduate level and above." —Choice " . . . the entire book is indispensable for any of us before we play another Bartók piece." —Clavier "This work collects in one place an enormous number of 'facts' about the piano music of Bartók . . . for planning concerts and student repertoire, and as a survey of an important body of 20th-century music, this listing is valuable." —Library Journal This chronological listing of more than 400 pieces and movements presents in convenient form essential information about each of Bartók's solo piano works, including its various editions, timing, level of difficulty, pertinent remarks by the composer, and bibliographical references to it.
Author : Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933397
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Music Divided written by Danielle Fosler-Lussier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Divided explores how political pressures affected musical life on both sides of the iron curtain during the early years of the cold war. In this groundbreaking study, Danielle Fosler-Lussier illuminates the pervasive political anxieties of the day through particular attention to artistic, music-theoretical, and propagandistic responses to the music of Hungary’s most renowned twentieth-century composer, Béla Bartók. She shows how a tense period of political transition plagued Bartók’s music and imperiled those who took a stand on its aesthetic value in the emerging socialist state. Her fascinating investigation of Bartók’s reception outside of Hungary demonstrates that Western composers, too, formulated their ideas about musical style under the influence of ever-escalating cold war tensions. Music Divided surveys Bartók’s role in provoking negative reactions to "accessible" music from Pierre Boulez, Hermann Scherchen, and Theodor Adorno. It considers Bartók’s influence on the youthful compositions and thinking of Bruno Maderna and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and it outlines Bartók’s legacy in the music of the Hungarian composers András Mihály, Ferenc Szabó, and Endre Szervánszky. These details reveal the impact of local and international politics on the selection of music for concert and radio programs, on composers’ choices about musical style, on government radio propaganda about music, on the development of socialist realism, and on the use of modernism as an instrument of political action.
Author : David E. Schneider
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520932056
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition written by David E. Schneider and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-11-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that Béla Bartók had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe. What this rich and beautifully written study makes clear is that, contrary to much prevailing thought about the great twentieth-century Hungarian composer, Bartók was also strongly influenced by the art-music traditions of his native country. Drawing from a wide array of material including contemporary reviews and little known Hungarian documents, David Schneider presents a new approach to Bartók that acknowledges the composer’s debt to a variety of Hungarian music traditions as well as to influential contemporaries such as Igor Stravinsky. Putting representative works from each decade beginning with Bartók’s graduation from the Music Academy in 1903 until his departure for the United States in 1940 under critical lens, Schneider reads the composer’s artistic output as both a continuation and a profound transformation of the very national tradition he repeatedly rejected in public. By clarifying why Bartók felt compelled to obscure his ties to the past and by illuminating what that past actually was, Schneider dispels myths about Bartók’s relationship to nineteenth-century traditions and at the same time provides a new perspective on the relationship between nationalism and modernism in early-twentieth century music.
Author : Peter Laki
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219427
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Bartók and His World written by Peter Laki and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Béla Bartók, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a rapidly growing critical and analytical literature. Bartók was born in Hungary and made his home there for all but his last five years, when he resided in the United States. As a result, many aspects of his life and work have been accessible only to readers of Hungarian. The main goal of this volume is to provide English-speaking audiences with new insights into the life and reception of this musician, especially in Hungary. Part I begins with an essay by Leon Botstein that places Bartók in a large historical and cultural context. László Somfai reports on the catalog of Bartók's works that is currently in progress. Peter Laki shows the extremes of the composer's reception in Hungary, while Tibor Tallián surveys the often mixed reviews from the American years. The essays of Carl Leafstedt and Vera Lampert deal with his librettists Béla Balázs and Melchior Lengyel respectively. David Schneider addresses the artistic relationship between Bartók and Stravinsky. Most of the letters and interviews in Part II concern Bartók's travels and emigration as they reflected on his personal life and artistic evolution. Part III presents early critical assessments of Bartók's work as well as literary and poetic responses to his music and personality.
Author : Bela Bartok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400867207
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor written by Bela Bartok and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a substantial and thorough musicological analysis of Turkish folk music. It reproduces in facsimile Bartók's autograph record of eighty seven vocal and instrumental peasant melodies of the Yürük Tribes, a nomadic people in southern Anatolia. Bartók's introduction includes his annotations of the melodies, texts, and translations and establishes a connection between Old Hungarian and Old Turkish folk music. Begun in 1936 and completed in 1943, the work was Bartók's last major essay. The editor, Dr. Benjamin Suchoff, has provided an historical introduction and a chronology of the various manuscript versions. An afterword by Kurt Reinhard describes recent research in Turkish ethnomusicology and gives a contemporary assessment of Bartók's field work in Turkey. Appendices prepared by the editor include an index of themes compiled by computer. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Vilmos Juhász
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bartók's Years in America written by Vilmos Juhász and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Halsey Stevens Papers in the Library of Congress.
Author : Judit Frigyesi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924581
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Bela Bartok and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest written by Judit Frigyesi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-03-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 art and for a definition of identity in a rapidly changing world. Is it still possible, Bartók's generation of artists asked, to create coherent art in a world that is no longer whole? Bartók and others were preoccupied with this question and developed their aesthetics in response to it. In a discussion of Bartók and of Endre Ady, the most influential Hungarian poet of the time, Frigyesi demonstrates how different branches of art and different personalities responded to the same set of problems, creating oeuvres that appear as reflections of one another. She also examines Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, exploring philosophical and poetic ideas of Hungarian modernism and linking Bartók's stylistic innovations to these concepts.
Author : Sidney Sheldon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062015591
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Naked Face written by Sidney Sheldon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life. If he does not penetrate the mind of a murderer he will find himself arrested for murder or murdered himself... Two people closely involved with Dr. Stevens have already been killed. Is one of the doctor's patients responsible? Someone overwhelmed by his problems? A neurotic driven by compulsion? A madman? Before the murderer strikes again, Judd must strip away the mask of innocence the criminal wears, uncover the inner emotions, fears, and desires, to expose . . .
