Bartók, Hungary, and the renewal of tradition: case studies in the intersection of modernity and nationality
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Main Author: Schneider, David E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2006
Series:California studies in 20th-century music 5
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index
Tradition rejected : Bartók's polemics and the nineteenth-century Hungarian musical inheritance -- Tradition maintained : nationalism, verbunkos, Kossuth and the Rhapsody, op. 1 -- Tradition transformed : "The night's music" and the pastoral roots of a modern style -- Tradition challenged : confronting Stravinsky -- Tradition transcribed : the Rhapsody for violin no. 1, the politics of folk-music research and the artifice of authenticity -- Tradition restored : the Violin concerto, verbunkos and Hungary on the eve of World War II.
It is well known that Bela Bartok had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe. What this rich and beautifully written study makes clear is that, contrary to much prevailing thought about the great twentieth-century Hungarian composer, Bartok was also strongly influenced by the art-music traditions of his native country. Drawing from a wide array of material including contemporary reviews and little known Hungarian documents, David Schneider presents a new approach to Bartok that acknowledges the composer's debt to a variety of Hungarian mu
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 308 pages)
ISBN:0520932056
9780520932050

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