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Bartók perspectives : man, composer, and ethnomusicologist

Author: Elliott Antokoletz; Victoria Fischer; Benjamin Suchoff
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Named Person: Béla Bartók; Béla Bartók; Béla Bartók
Material Type: Biography, Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Elliott Antokoletz; Victoria Fischer; Benjamin Suchoff
ISBN: 0195125622 9780195125627
OCLC Number: 40990203
Notes: Papers delivered at the International Bartók Conference, held at Radford University, Radford, Va., Apr. 6-9, 1995 and at the Bartók in Retrospect International Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles, Oct. 17-18, 1995.
Description: xvi, 316 p. : ill., 2 maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Perspectives in Bartók research / Elliott Antokoletz --
I. Career and work as folklorist. 2. Bartók's odyssey in Slovak folk music / Benjamin Suchoff --
3. Bartók on Southslavic epic songs / Stephen Erdely --
II. Analytical and theoretical studies. 4. Analyzing Bartók's works of 1918-1922: motives, tone patches, and tonal mosaics / Malcolm Gillies --
5. Modal transformation and musical symbolism in Bartók's Cantata Profana / Elliott Antokoletz --
6. Organic expansion and classical structure in Bartók's Sonata for two pianos and percussion / Elliott Antokoletz --
7. The benefits of "relaxation": the role of the "Pihenő" movement in Béla Bartók's Contrasts / John K. Novak --
III. Style and aesthetics. 8. The genesis of Bartók's musical language / Benjamin Suchoff --
9. Love and anguish: Bartók's expressionism / Dorothy Lamb Crawford --
10. The Verbunkos and Bartók's modern style: the case of Duke Bluebeard's castle / Judit Frigyesi --
11. Bartók's Concerto for orchestra (1943) and Janác̆ek's Sinfonietta (1926): conceptual and motivic parallels / James Porter --
IV. Folk music influences. 12. Bartók in North Africa: a unique fieldwork and its impact on his music / János Kárpáti --
13. Background and analysis of Bartók's Romanian Christmas carols for piano (1915) / David Yeomans --
14. Béla Bartók and Bulgarian rhythm / Timothy Rice --
V. Compositional process. 15. Bartók's notations in composition and transcription / László Somfai --
16. Pelléas revealed: the original ending of Bartók's opera, Duke Bluebeard's castle / Carl S. Leafstedt --
17. Correcting printed editions of Béla Bartók's Viola concerto and other compositions / Peter Bartók --
18. Deciphering Béla Bartók's viola concerto sketch / Nelson Dellamaggiore --
VI. Orientation toward pedagogy. 19. Bartók's fourteen bagatelles op.6, for piano: toward performance authenticity / Victoria Fischer --
VII. Reception history. 20. The canonization of Béla Bartók / Malcolm Gillies.
Responsibility: edited by Elliott Antokoletz, Victoria Fischer, Benjamin Suchoff.
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