Béla Bartók: Life and Work

Contents

• Chapter 1 Preface
• Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
• Part 3 Bartok's Life
• Chapter 4 Chapter 1 . EARLY MUSICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN HUNGARY
• Chapter 5 The Habsburg dynasty
• Chapter 6 The Hungarian Minorities
• Chapter 7 The Kossuth Rebellion
• Chapter 8 Chapter 2 . CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH: 1881-1899
• Chapter 9 Valcer Opus 1
• Chapter 10 First Public Appearance
• Chapter 11 Rejection of Theism
• Chapter 12 Chapter 3 . SUMMARY OF HUNGARIAN MUSICAL DIALECT: 1889-1905
• Chapter 13 Academy Professors
• Chapter 14 Impact of Strauss and Liszt
• Chapter 15 Kossuth Symphonic Poem
• Chapter 16 Discovery of Rural Folk Song
• Chapter 17 Introduction to Kodaly
• Chapter 18 Chapter 4 . FUSION OF NATIONAL SYTLES: 1906-1925
• Chapter 19 Discovery of Old-Style Hungarian Folk Song
• Chapter 20 Stefi Geyer Episode
• Chapter 21 First Encounter with Romanian Folk Song
• Chapter 22 Fieldwork in Romanian Villages of Transylvania
• Chapter 23 Trailblazing a New Frontier in Ethnomusicology
• Chapter 24 Transformation of Folk Music into Art Music
• Chapter 25 Duke Bluebeard's Castle
• Chapter 26 New Hungarian Music Society
• Chapter 27 Advent of the First World War
• Chapter 28 The Wooden Prince
• Chapter 29 The Miraculous Mandarin
• Chapter 30 Chapter 5 . SYNTHESIS OF EAST AND WEST: 1926-1945
• Chapter 31 First American Tour
• Chapter 32 Cantata Profana
• Chapter 33 Appointment to the Academy of Sciences
• Chapter 34 Austrian Anschluss
• Chapter 35 Exile in America
• Part 36 Folk Music Research
• Chapter 37 Chapter 6 . HUNGARIAN FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 38 A. The Old Style of Hungarian Peasant Music
• Chapter 39 B. The New Style of Hungarian Peasant Music
• Chapter 40 C. Other Tunes in Hungarian Peasant Music
• Chapter 41 Table 1: Strophic Structure in Class C Melodies
• Chapter 42 Chapter 7 . SLOVAK FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 43 Table 2: Classification of Slovak Folk Melodies
• Chapter 44 Old Style Melodies
• Chapter 45 Mixed Style Melodies
• Chapter 46 New Style Melodies
• Chapter 47 Chapter 8 . ROMANIAN FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 48 RFM.i: Instrumental Melodies
• Chapter 49 Table 3: Classification of Romanian Instrumental Folk Melodies
• Chapter 50 Instruments
• Chapter 51 Dance Genres and Their Choreography
• Chapter 52 Musical Characteristics
• Chapter 53 RFM.ii: Vocal Melodies
• Chapter 54 Table 4: Classification of Romanian Vocal Folk Melodies
• Chapter 55 RFM.iii: Texts
• Chapter 56 Table 5: Classification of Romanian Folk Texts
• Chapter 57 RFM.iv: Carols and Christmas Songs (Colinde)
• Chapter 58 Part One-Table 6: Stanza Structure in the Colinda Melodies
• Chapter 59 Part Two-Table 7: Classification of the Colinda Texts
• Chapter 60 RFM.v: Maramures County
• Chapter 61 Table 8: Classification of Maramures County Folk Melodies
• Chapter 62 Chapter 9 . ARAB FOLK MUSIC FROM THE BISKRA DISTRICT
• Chapter 63 Wind Instruments
• Chapter 64 Stringed Instruments
• Chapter 65 Percussion Instruments
• Chapter 66 Vocal Melodies
• Chapter 67 Scale and Range
• Chapter 68 Musical Form
• Chapter 69 Rhythm
• Chapter 70 Accompaniment
• Chapter 71 Tempo
• Chapter 72 Peculiarities of Performance
• Chapter 73 Classification of the Instrumental Dance Melodies
• Chapter 74 Chapter 10 . RUTHENIAN FOLK MELODY
• Chapter 75 Chapter 11 . YUGOSLAV FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 76 YFM.i: Serbo-Croatian Folk Songs
• Chapter 77 Table 9: Morphology of the Serbo-Croatian Vocal Folk Melodies
• Chapter 78 Table 10: Selected Data from Bartok's "Tabulation of Material"
• Chapter 79 Chapter 12 . BULGARIAN FOLK MUSIC
• Chapter 80 Table 11: Bartok's Classified Bulgarian Folk Music Collection
• Chapter 81 Chapter 13 . TURKISH FOLK MUSIC FROM ASIA MINOR
• Chapter 82 Table 12: Classification of Turkish Folk Melodies
• Chapter 83 Epilogue
• Chapter 84 List of Compositions and Editions
• Chapter 85 Personalia
• Chapter 86 Abbreviations
• Chapter 87 Notes
• Chapter 88 Select
• Bibliography
• Chapter 89 Index
• Chapter 90 About the Author