Part one. Compositions. Bela Bartok: a celebration. Notes on the music ; Summary of Hungarian musical dialect (to 1905) ; Fusion of national musical styles (1906-1925) ; Synthesis of east and west (1926-1945) ; Concerto for orchestra ; Sonata no. 2 for violin and piano ; Violin concerto no. 2 ; Rhapsody no. 1 for violin and piano ; Music for strings, percussion, and celesta ; Piano concerto no. 1 --
Bartok's fusion of national styles. Ten easy pieces ; For Children ; Two elegies (op. 8b) ; Two Romanian dances (op. 8a) ; Three burlesques (op. 8c) ; Four dirges (op. 9a) ; Seven sketches (op. 9b) ; Allegro barbaro ; Dance suite for piano (1925) --
Second string quartet: stylistic landmark --
Impact of Italian Baroque music on Bartok's music --
History of Bartok's Mikrokosmos. Background and development ; The manuscripts ; Transcriptions ; The Mikrokosmos performances --
Sixth string quartet: structure and concept. Background of the fourth movement --
Genesis and development of the concerto for orchestra. Political events in Hungary: 1934-1940 ; The exile in America: 1940-1945 ; The concerto and its diverse sources --
Some observations on Bartok's third piano concerto --
Folk-music sources in Bartok works --
Ethnomusicological roots of Bela Bartok's musical language. Hungarian sources ; Slovak sources ; Romanian sources ; Ruthenian sources ; Bulgarian sources ; Yugoslav sources ; Arab sources ; Turkish sources --
Approaching Bartok's principles of composition. Polymodes, modes, and scales ; Intervallic cells ; Rhythm ; Melody ; Tone color ; Counterpoint --
Part two. Musical folklore. Preface to The Hungarian Folk Song. The Arpad dynasty ; The Habsburg monarchy ; Nationalism and the minorities ; Musical developments ; The Bartok and Kodaly dichotomy --
Bartok and Hungarian folk music --
Slovak Folk Songs: music and politics. Political events and editorial problems --
Bartok's Romanian folk music publication. Background ; Editorial problems ; The volumes --
Bartok and Yugoslav folk music --
Preface to Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor --
Part three. General studies. Bartok as a man of letters. The investigation of musical folklore ; National folk music ; Comparative musical folklore ; Book reviews and polemics ; Musical instruments ; The relation between folk music and art music ; The life and music of Bela Bartok ; Bartok on music and musicians --
The Bartok-Kodaly connection --
The New York Bartok archive: history and sources. Resources ; Publications ; Research ; Support services ; Afterword.
