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Béla Bartók : life and work / Benjamin Suchoff.
| Author/creator | Suchoff, Benjamin |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2001. |
| Description | xi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part one. Bartok's life. Early musical developments in Hungary. The Habsburg dynasty ; The Hungarian minorities ; The Kossuth rebellion -- Childhood and early youth: 1881-1899. Valcer Opus I ; First public appearance ; Rejection of theism -- Summary of Hungarian musical dialect: 1889-1905. The academy professors ; The impact of Strauss and Liszt ; Kossuth symphonic poem ; Discovery of indigenous rural folk song ; Bartok and Kodaly -- Fusion of national styles: 1906-1925. The discovery of old-style Hungarian folk song ; The Stefi Geyer episode ; The first encounter with Romanian folk song ; Fieldwork in Romanian villages of Transylvania ; Trailblazing a new frontier in ethnomusicology ; Transformation of folk music into art music ; Duke Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11 ; The new Hungarian music society ; The advent of the first world war ; The Wooden Prince, op. 13 ; The Miraculous Mandarin, op. 19 -- Synthesis of east and west: 1926-1945. First American tour ; Cantata profana ; Appointment to the academy of sciences ; Austrian Anschluss ; Exile in America -- Part two. Folk music research. Hungarian folk music. Class A: the old style of Hungarian peasant music ; Class B: the new style of Hungarian peasant music ; Class C: other tunes in Hungarian peasant music ; Strophic structure in class C melodies -- Slovak folk music. Classification of Slovak folk melodies ; Old style melodies ; Mixed style melodies ; New style melodies -- Romanian folk music. Instrumental melodies ; Classification of Romanian instrumental folk melodies ; Instruments ; Dance genres and their choreography ; Musical characteristics ; Classification of Romanian vocal folk melodies ; Classification of Romanian folk texts ; Stanza structure in the Colinda melodies ; Classification of the Colinda texts ; Classification of Maramures county folk melodies -- Arab folk music from the Biskra district. Wind instruments ; Stringed instruments ; Percussion instruments ; Vocal melodies ; Sale and range ; Musical form ; Rhythm ; Accompaniment ; Tempo ; Peculiarities of performance ; Classification of the instrumental dance melodies -- Ruthenian folk melodies -- Yugoslav folk music. Morphology of the Serbo-Croatian vocal folk melodies ; Tabulation of Yugoslav melodies ; Selected data from Bartok's "Tabulation of material" -- Bulgarian folk music. Bartok's classified Bulgarian folk music collection -- Turkish folk music from Asia minor. Classification of Turkish folk melodies. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-310) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001049050 |
| ISBN | 0810840766 (alk. paper) |