| Description |
xvi, 316 pages : 2 maps, music ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Papers delivered at the International Bartók Conference, held at Radford University, Radford, Virginia, April 6-9, 1995 and at the Bartók in Retrospect International Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles, October 17-18, 1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Chronological list of cited Bartók compositions": pages 303-304. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Antokoletz, Elliott.
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Fischer, Victoria.
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Suchoff, Benjamin.
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| ISBN |
0195125622 |
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