Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Author: David Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1996-05-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521485050

This handbook contains a discussion of the historical and musical contexts of the piece, its early performance history, and critical reception.

Fourth String Quartet (1928)

Fourth String Quartet (1928)
Author:
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781458418685

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). HPS 77

The Music of Béla Bartók

The Music of Béla Bartók
Author: Paul Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300051117

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.

Bartók's Viola Concerto

Bartók's Viola Concerto
Author: Donald Maurice
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195156900

Tells the intriguing story of Bela Bartok's viola concerto, a work left unfinished at his death in 1945. Drawing on interviews and documents that reveal previously unavailable information, it discusses the commission, the reconstruction by Tibor Serly, events leading up to the premiere, its reception over the second half of the twentieth century, the revisions, and future possibilities.

Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 1

Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 1
Author: Lynn Freeman Olson
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457440540

This exciting edition contains 100 early intermediate selections in their original form, spanning the Baroque period to present day. The repertoire, which includes several minuets, folk dances, character pieces and much more, has been carefully graded and selected for student appeal by editor Lynn Freeman Olson.

The Cambridge Companion to Bartók

The Cambridge Companion to Bartók
Author: Amanda Bayley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001-03-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139826093

This Companion is an accessible guide to Bartók's music and is an ideal introduction to the composer for students, performers and concert-goers. Part I of the book sets out the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartók's interest in and 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 reveals the wide variety of responses to Bartók's music in Europe and the United States, both during and after his lifetime. It includes a comparison of analytical approaches to his music and an evaluation of performances including those of the composer himself. The book is written by a team of specialists, who represent more recent thinking on the composer and his music.

Bartók

Bartók
Author: Benjamin Suchoff
Publisher: Schirmer G Books
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Bela Bartok's compositions feature among the major artistic achievements of the 20th century. This accessible text discusses the music of the Concerto for Orchestra in detail, and provides the background in which Bartok created this major composition.