Bela Bart-k

Description

"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 discussion of selected works, including Mikrokosmos. Suchoff examines the outcome of Bartok's fieldwork, methodology, and findings in East European, Arabic, and Turkish autochthonous folk music materials and discusses Bartok's American years." "With a narrative supported by a substantial number of musical examples and references, Bela Bartok: A Celebration is essential for music teachers and students. Theorists, ethnomusicologists, and musicians will find this an indispensable resource for future research and for understanding Bartok's compositional processes and methodology."--BOOK JACKET.