Bartok Companion
by Gillies, MalcolmFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-04-01
Publisher(s): Amadeus Pr
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Summary
Bela Bartok is among the most significant figures in the rise of musical modernism, placed alongside Debussy, Stravinsky, and the composers of the Second Viennese School in the pantheon of the 20th century's most influential innovators.
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | |
| Editorial Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Key to Abbreviations | |
| Bartok and his Music in the 1990s | p. 3 |
| The Private Man | p. 18 |
| In his 'Compositional Workshop' | p. 30 |
| The Ethnomusicologist | p. 51 |
| The Pianist | p. 64 |
| The Teacher | p. 79 |
| With his Publishers | p. 89 |
| Youthful Piano Works | p. 101 |
| 'At last something truly new': Bagatelles | p. 110 |
| Fusion of National Styles: Piano Literature, 1908-11 | p. 124 |
| Piano Works of the War Years | p. 146 |
| Approaching Atonality: Studies and Improvisations | p. 162 |
| The 'Piano Year' of 1926 | p. 173 |
| Synthesis of East and West: Mikrokosmos | p. 189 |
| Youthful Chamber Works | p. 215 |
| Early String Quartets | p. 226 |
| Violin Sonatas | p. 243 |
| Middle-period String Quartets | p. 257 |
| Violin Rhapsodies | p. 278 |
| Violin Duos and Late String Quartets | p. 285 |
| Masterworks (I): Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta | p. 303 |
| Masterworks (II): Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion | p. 315 |
| Final Chamber Works | p. 331 |
| Opera: Duke Bluebeard's Castle | p. 349 |
| Ballet: The Wooden Prince | p. 360 |
| Pantomime: The Miraculous Mandarin | p. 372 |
| Works for Solo Voice with Piano | p. 387 |
| Choral Works | p. 413 |
| Cantata profana | p. 424 |
| Youthful Orchestral Works | p. 441 |
| Two Orchestral Suites | p. 454 |
| The 'Lost' Violin Concerto | p. 468 |
| Portraits, Pictures and Pieces | p. 477 |
| Dance Suite | p. 487 |
| The First Two Piano Concertos | p. 498 |
| Second Violin Concerto | p. 515 |
| Concerto for Orchestra | p. 526 |
| Final Concertos | p. 538 |
| Chronology: Bartok's Life and Works | p. 555 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 561 |
| Contributors | p. 568 |
| Index of Bartok's Works | p. 571 |
| General Index | p. 577 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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