The Cambridge companion to Bartók

Summary: This comprehensive, accessible guide to Bartók and his music contains up-to-date research by a new generation of Bartók scholars. Part I sets the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartók's research into folk music. Part II surveys his compositional output in all genres, relating changes in style to broad aesthetic issues, his folk music studies, and his activities as a pianist, music editor and teacher. The final part considers various aspects of reception and the variety of responses to Bartók's music in Europe and the United States.

Record details

ISBN: 0521660106
ISBN: 9780521660105
ISBN: 0521669588
ISBN: 9780521669580
Physical Description: print
xv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-265) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The political and cultural climate in Hungary at the turn of the twentieth century / Lynn Hooker -- Bartók and folk music / Stephen Erdely -- Bartók's orchestral music and the modern world / David Cooper -- The stage works : portraits of loneliness / Carl Leafstedt -- Vocal music : inspiration and ideology / Rachel Beckles Willson -- Piano music : teaching pieces and folksong arrangements / Victoria Fischer -- Piano music : recital repertoire and chamber music / Susan Bradshaw -- The piano concertos and sonata for two pianos and percussion / Nicky Losseff -- Works for solo violin and the viola concerto / Peter Laki -- The string quartets and works for chamber orchestra / Amanda Bayley -- Hungarian nationalism and the reception of Bartók's music, 1904-1940 / David E. Schneider -- Bartók in America / Malcolm Gillies -- Bartók reception in cold war Europe / Danielle Fosler-Lussier -- Analytical responses to Bartók's music : pitch organization / Ivan F. Waldbauer -- Bartók at the piano : lessons from the composer's sound recordings / Vera Lampert.