Bartók Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist
- Editor: Antokoletz, Elliott
- Editor: Fischer, Victoria
- Editor: Suchoff, Benjamin
Given the highly technical nature of many chapters, it is difficult to imagine writing of greater clarity
Bartók Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist
- Editor: Antokoletz, Elliott
- Editor: Fischer, Victoria
- Editor: Suchoff, Benjamin
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Given the highly technical nature of many chapters, it is difficult to imagine writing of greater clarity
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This compilation of essays spans a wide range of individual perspectives within the varied disciplines related to Bartók's life and work. The nineteen chapters together constitute a broad yet integrated picture of the Hungarian composer's contributions to twentieth-century music and scholarship. While self-contained, each chapter contributes to a larger scheme of interrelated subjects that provide a coherent view of the Bartók field. The book also contains integrative theoretic-analytical approaches to Bartók's musical language that demonstrate relations between the modalities and rhythms of folk music and his more abstract musical principles. Some chapters examine Bartók's folk-music materials in connection with his fieldwork, transcription techniques, classification methodology, and compositional influences. Other chapters explore Bartók's system of composition from its early stages to maturity by way of his abstract works and his folk-music transcriptions. The book also addresses the relevance of Bartók's work to broader historical, philosophical, and folkloristic, compositional, performance, and reception issues.
Contents
- 1: Elliott Antokoletz: Perspectives in Bartok Research
- Part I . Career and Work as Folklorist 2: Benjamin Suchoff: Bartok's Odyssey in Slovak Folk Music 3: Stephen Erdely: Bartok on Southslavic Epic Songs
- Part II . Analytical and Theoretical Studies 4: Malcolm Gillies: Analyzing Bartok's Works of 1918-1922: Motives, Tone Patches, and Tonal Mosaics 5: Elliott Antokoletz: Modal Transformation and Musical Symbolism in Bartok's Cantata Profana 6: Elliott Antok
- Part III . Sytle and Aesthetics 8: Benjamin Suchoff: The Genesis of Bartok's Musical Language 9: Dorothy Lamb Crawford: Love and Anguish: Bartok's Expressionism 10: Judit Frigyesi: The Verbunkos and Bartok's Modern Style: The Case of Duke Bluebeard's Cast
- Part IV . Folk Music Influences 12: Janos Karpati: Bartok in North Africa: A Unique Fieldwork and Its Impact on His Music 13: David Yeomans: Background and Analysis of Bartok's Romanian Christmas Carols for Piano (1915) 14: Timothy Rice: Bela Bartok and B
- Part V . Compositional Process 15: Laszlo Somfai: Bartok's Notations in Composition and Transcription 16: Carl S. Leafstedt: Pelleas Revealed: The Original Ending of Bartok's Opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle 17: Peter Bartok: Correcting Printed Editions of
- Part VI . Orientation Toward Pedagogy 19: Victoria Fischer: Bartok's Fourteen Bagatelles op. 6, for Piano: Toward Performance Authenticity
- Part VII . Reception History 20: Malcolm Gillies: The Canonization of Bela Bartok Chronological List of Cited Bartok Compositions
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Given the highly technical nature of many chapters, it is difficult to imagine writing of greater clarity
