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Klappentext This comprehensive! accessible guide to Bartok and his music contains up-to-date research by a new generation of Bartok scholars. Part I sets the cultural! social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century! and considers Bartok'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 Bartok's music in Europe and the United States. Zusammenfassung This is an accessible guide to Bartók and his music. Wide-ranging in coverage, it sets out the cultural and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, considers Bartók's research into folk music, surveys his compositional output in all genres and the varied responses to his work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction Amanda Bayley; Part I. Contexts: Political, Social and Cultural: 1. The political and cultural climate in Hungary at the turn of the twentieth century Lynn Hooker; 2. Bartók and folk music Stephen Erdely; Part II. Profiles of the Music: 3. Bartók's orchestral music and the modern world David Cooper; 4. The stage works: portraits of loneliness Carl Leafstedt; 5. Vocal music: inspiration and ideology Rachel Beckles Willson; 6. Piano music: teaching pieces and folksong arrangements Victoria Fischer; 7. Piano music: recital repertoire and chamber music Susan Bradshaw; 8. The Piano Concertos and Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Nicky Losseff; 9. Works for solo violin and the Viola Concerto Peter Laki; 10. The String Quartets and works for chamber orchestra Amanda Bayley; Part III. Reception: 11. Hungarian nationalism and the reception of Bartók's music 1904-1940 David E. Schneider; 12. Bartók in America Malcolm Gillies; 13. Bartók reception in cold war Europe Danielle Fosler-Lussier; 14. Analytical responses to Bartók's music: pitch organization Ivan F. Waldbauer; 15. Bartók at the piano: lessons from the composer's sound recordings Vera Lampert; Notes; Select bibliography; Index....
