The Music of Béla Bartók

The Music of Béla Bartók

Author: Paul Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780300051117

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Sought to discover an unvarying precompositional system that accounted for individual musical events. Wilson's approach is different in that he develops a way to explore each work within the musical contexts that the work itself creates and sustains. Wilson begins by discussing a number of fundamental musical materials that Bartok employed throughout his oeuvre. Using these materials as foundations, he then describes a series of flexible, behaviorally defined harmonic.


Piano music of Béla Bartók

Piano music of Béla Bartók

Author: Béla Bartók

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0486241092

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Second in the Archive Edition incorporating composer's corrections, emphasizing Bartok's lifelong work both with East European folk music, and with music for children and student pianists. 85 short pieces: "For Children, " 2 Elegies, Sonatina, other folk-inspired keyboard work.


Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csik - Sheet Music for Piano

Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csik - Sheet Music for Piano

Author: Béla Bartók

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2018-01-24

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13: 1528783824

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A collection of 3 classic Hungarian folk songs originally published in 1908. Songs include: 1. The Peacock, 2. At the Jánoshida Fairground, 3. White Lily. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.


Bartók for Piano

Bartók for Piano

Author: David Yeomans

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2000-06-22

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780253213839

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" . . . detailed and thorough . . . a wealth of information . . . David Yeomans deserves our thanks for a job exceedingly well done." —American Music Teacher " . . . a must for pianists . . . " —American Reference Book Annual "David Yeomans's study is certainly to be recommended for all good music libraries, pianists and students of Bartók." —The Music Review "Although there are currently more than 15 books in print about composer Béla Bartók, this short volume is unique in its focus on his complete oeuvre for solo piano. . . . Recommended for pianists, piano teachers, and students from lower-division undergraduate level and above." —Choice " . . . the entire book is indispensable for any of us before we play another Bartók piece." —Clavier "This work collects in one place an enormous number of 'facts' about the piano music of Bartók . . . for planning concerts and student repertoire, and as a survey of an important body of 20th-century music, this listing is valuable." —Library Journal This chronological listing of more than 400 pieces and movements presents in convenient form essential information about each of Bartók's solo piano works, including its various editions, timing, level of difficulty, pertinent remarks by the composer, and bibliographical references to it.


Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók

Author: Elliott Antokoletz

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 9780815320883

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This second edition ofBela Bartok: A Guide to Researchpresents a concisely detailed history of Bartok's musical development, a catalogue of his compositions according to genre (including basic data on Bartok's publishers, achives, library collections, and catalogues), and 1200 annotated primary and secondary sources. A decade of scholarship since the first edition (1988) is included; over forty percent of the material in the second edition is new. Four indexes cover listings by author and title; Bartok's compositions and his editions and transcriptions of earlier keyboard works; proper names; and subjects. Primary sources include: Bartok's own essays, articles, lectures on folk music and art music, letters, and other documents; his folk music collections; facsimilies, reprints, and revisions of his music; and his own editions and transcriptions of earlier keyboard music. Secondary sources include: biographical and historical studies, specialized studies of his personality, philiosophy, andpolitical attitudes; theoretic, analytic, stylistic, and aesthetic studies of his music; discussions of folk music influences and art music influences; studies of his compositional process (based on autograph manuscripts, editions, and his own recordings); discussions of his orientation toward pedagogy; and discussions of insitutional sources for Bartok's research (including archival and bibliographic sources, special issues, festivals, conferences, colloquia, concert programs, and computerized data bases for Bartok analysis and research. This annotated, topically-organizedGuideis the most extensive bibliographical research tool on Bartok. It is the first to draw together the most important primary and secondary bibliographic sources, which cover his varied activities as composer, ethnomusicologist, pianist, pedagogue, linguist, and editor. It is significant not only for those interested in musicological research into Bartok's compositional and scholarly activities but also for those interestedin ethnomusicological research methodology in general, and the study of Eastern European, North African Arab, and Turkish folk music in particular.


The Masterwork in Music: Volume II, 1926

The Masterwork in Music: Volume II, 1926

Author: Heinrich Schenker

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0486799360

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Volume II of three-volume set features an essay on Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, studies of Bach keyboard and solo cello works, and theoretical writings on sonata form and fugue and Schenkerian theory.


The Masterwork in Music: Volume III, 1930

The Masterwork in Music: Volume III, 1930

Author: Heinrich Schenker

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0486799379

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Volume III of this three-volume set is dominated by one of the eminent theorist's most celebrated studies: the analysis of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. All four movements are discussed in painstaking detail.