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"Bela Bartok: A Celebration is a compilation of essays, lectures, and scholarly papers on Bartok studies from 1953 to the present and includes insights obtained by the author from a half-century career as a Bartok specialist. Divided into three parts, the chapters examine Bartok as a multifaceted music figure: composer, folklorist, pianist, and teacher. The book presents program notes, an introduction to Bartok's principles of composition, and theoretic-analytical...
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The main goal of this volume is to provide English-speaking audiences with new insights into the life and reception of this musician, especially in Hungary. Part I begins with an essay by Leon Botstein that places Bartok in a large historical and cultural context. Lászlo Somfai reports on the catalog of Bartók's works that is currently in progress. Peter Laki shows the extremes of the composer's reception in Hungary, while Tibor Tallián surveys...
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"Two early twentieth-century operas - Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande (1902) and Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) - transformed the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language. This new language was based almost exclusively on interactions between folk modalities and their more abstract symmetrical transformations. Elliott Antokoletz reveals not only the new musical language of these operas but also the way in which they...
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