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Bartók and His World

Author : Peter Laki
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006338
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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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.

The Music of Béla Bartók

Author : Paul Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300051117
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Music of Béla Bartók written by Paul Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sought to discover an unvarying precompositional system that accounted for individual musical events. Wilson's approach is different in that he develops a way to explore each work within the musical contexts that the work itself creates and sustains. Wilson begins by discussing a number of fundamental musical materials that Bartok employed throughout his oeuvre. Using these materials as foundations, he then describes a series of flexible, behaviorally defined harmonic.

Bela Bartok - the American Years

Author : Agatha Fassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780844600925
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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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:

Bela Bartok

Author : László Somfai
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520914619
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Bela Bartok written by László Somfai and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music. For Bèla Bartók, composition often began with improvisation at the piano. Làszló Somfai maintains that Bartók composed without preconceived musical theories and refused to teach composition precisely for this reason. He was not an analytical composer but a musical creator for whom intuition played a central role. These conclusions are the result of Somfai's three decades of work with Bartók's oeuvre; of careful analysis of some 3,600 pages of sketches, drafts, and autograph manuscripts; and of the study of documents reflecting the development of Bartók's compositions. Included as well are corrections preserved only on recordings of Bartók's performances of his own works. Somfai also provides the first comprehensive catalog of every known work of Bartók, published and unpublished, and of all extant draft, sketch, and preparatory material. His book will be basic to all future scholarly work on Bartók and will assist performers in clarifying the problems of Bartók notation. Moreover, it will be a model for future work on other major composers.

The naked face of genius: Bela Bartok's last years

Author : Agatha Fassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book The naked face of genius: Bela Bartok's last 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:

My Father

Author : Peter Bartók
Publisher : Bartok Records Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father written by Peter Bartók and published by Bartok Records Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the younger son's account of the composer, Béla Bartók, as a family man whose profession happened to be writing music. The origin of details of several works are described. The appendix contains the surviving letters written by the father to the son, including those that can be viewed as a chronological account of the last one and a half years of his life.

The Life and Music of Béla Bartók

Author : Halsey Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Music of Béla Bartók written by Halsey Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bela Bartók

Author : David Cooper
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300148771
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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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.

Bela Bart¢k Studies in Ethnomusicology

Author : Bäla Bart¢k
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803242470
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Bela Bart¢k Studies in Ethnomusicology written by Bäla Bart¢k and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composer, folklorist, and performer Béla Bartók (1881–1945) 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 East European folk music. Many of those essays, previously scattered in specialist journals in four different languages, are collected here for the first time. All are concerned with that branch of musicology within which Bartók was most influential, and for which he is best known: research into folk music, or ethnomusicology. The volume includes a preface by editor Benjamin Suchoff, a leading expert on Bartók’s music and writings. Suchoff examines Bartók’s developing views on the folk-music traditions of Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Arab world.

Bela Bartok and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest

Author : Judit Frigyesi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924581
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (245 download)

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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.

The Naked Face of Genius

Author : Agatha Fassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780575005952
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Naked Face of Genius 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:

Béla Bartók

Author : Elliott Antokoletz
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815320883
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Béla Bartók written by Elliott Antokoletz and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 music, letters, and other documents; his folk music collections; facsimilies, reprints, and revisions of his music; and his own editions and transcriptions of earlier keyboard music. Secondary sources include: biographical and historical studies, specialized studies of his personality, philiosophy, andpolitical attitudes; theoretic, analytic, stylistic, and aesthetic studies of his music; discussions of folk music influences and art music influences; studies of his compositional process (based on autograph manuscripts, editions, and his own recordings); discussions of his orientation toward pedagogy; and discussions of insitutional sources for Bartok's research (including archival and bibliographic sources, special issues, festivals, conferences, colloquia, concert programs, and computerized data bases for Bartok analysis and research. This annotated, topically-organizedGuideis the most extensive bibliographical research tool on Bartok. It is the first to draw together the most important primary and secondary bibliographic sources, which cover his varied activities as composer, ethnomusicologist, pianist, pedagogue, linguist, and editor. It is significant not only for those interested in musicological research into Bartok's compositional and scholarly activities but also for those interestedin ethnomusicological research methodology in general, and the study of Eastern European, North African Arab, and Turkish folk music in particular.

Béla Bartok

Author : Kenneth Chalmers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Béla Bartok written by Kenneth Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Béla Bartók's work set in the context of his homeland Hungary.

Chants Populaires Hongrois

Author : Béla Bartók
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486241084
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Chants Populaires Hongrois written by Béla Bartók and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative edition of early piano works, based on the composer's corrections from his own memorabilia and original editions. Includes an Introduction, translations of folk-song text, and commentary.

Béla Bartók

Author : Benjamin Suchoff
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810840768
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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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.

Concerto for Orchestra

Author : Béla Bartók
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Concerto for Orchestra written by Béla Bartók and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to Bartók

Author : Amanda Bayley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826093
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Bartók written by Amanda Bayley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is an accessible guide to Bartók's music and is an ideal introduction to the composer for students, performers and concert-goers. Part I of the book sets out the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartók's interest in and research into folk music. Part II surveys his compositional output in all genres, relating changes in style to broad aesthetic issues, his folk music studies, and his activities as a pianist, music editor and teacher. The final part reveals the wide variety of responses to Bartók's music in Europe and the United States, both during and after his lifetime. It includes a comparison of analytical approaches to his music and an evaluation of performances including those of the composer himself. The book is written by a team of specialists, who represent more recent thinking on the composer and his music.