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.

The Rest Is Noise

The Rest Is Noise
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2007-10-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1429932880

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its 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.

Letters

Letters
Author: Béla Bartók
Publisher: [Hungary] : Corvina Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1971
Genre: Composers
ISBN: