The Bartok Companion

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Bela Bartok is among the most significant figures in the rise of musical modernism, placed alongside Debussy, Stravinsky, and the composers of the Second Viennese School in the pantheon of the 20th century's most influential innovators.
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Overview

Bela Bartok is among the most significant figures in the rise of musical modernism, placed alongside Debussy, Stravinsky, and the composers of the Second Viennese School in the pantheon of the 20th century's most influential innovators.
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Editorial Reviews

Library Journal
In this excellent book, Gillies (music, Univ. of Queensland) collects 38 essays on Hungarian composer Bla Bartk. While Gillies has previously written on the composer in his books Bartk in Britain (Oxford Univ. Pr., 1989) and Bartk Remembered (Norton, 1991) and has supplied several essays in the present volume, the range of coverage and analytical styles employed by the essayists here far surpasses that of any other book on this major 20th-century musical figure. The book details all the composer's major works and his important efforts in collecting Eastern European and North African folk music. Music libraries and general libraries with significant music collections should consider this an essential purchase.-James E. Perone, Canisius Coll., Buffalo, N.Y.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780931340741
  • Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Publication date: 3/1/2003
  • Pages: 592
  • Product dimensions: 5.62 (w) x 8.75 (h) x 2.07 (d)

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Editorial Preface
Acknowledgements
Key to Abbreviations
1 Bartok and his Music in the 1990s 3
2 The Private Man 18
3 In his 'Compositional Workshop' 30
4 The Ethnomusicologist 51
5 The Pianist 64
6 The Teacher 79
7 With his Publishers 89
8 Youthful Piano Works 101
9 'At last something truly new': Bagatelles 110
10 Fusion of National Styles: Piano Literature, 1908-11 124
11 Piano Works of the War Years 146
12 Approaching Atonality: Studies and Improvisations 162
13 The 'Piano Year' of 1926 173
14 Synthesis of East and West: Mikrokosmos 189
15 Youthful Chamber Works 215
16 Early String Quartets 226
17 Violin Sonatas 243
18 Middle-period String Quartets 257
19 Violin Rhapsodies 278
20 Violin Duos and Late String Quartets 285
21 Masterworks (I): Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta 303
22 Masterworks (II): Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion 315
23 Final Chamber Works 331
24 Opera: Duke Bluebeard's Castle 349
25 Ballet: The Wooden Prince 360
26 Pantomime: The Miraculous Mandarin 372
27 Works for Solo Voice with Piano 387
28 Choral Works 413
29 Cantata profana 424
30 Youthful Orchestral Works 441
31 Two Orchestral Suites 454
32 The 'Lost' Violin Concerto 468
33 Portraits, Pictures and Pieces 477
34 Dance Suite 487
35 The First Two Piano Concertos 498
36 Second Violin Concerto 515
37 Concerto for Orchestra 526
38 Final Concertos 538
Chronology: Bartok's Life and Works 555
Select Bibliography 561
Contributors 568
Index of Bartok's Works 571
General Index 577
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