Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók
Author: Elliott Antokoletz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 1135845417

The Music of Béla Bartók

The Music of Béla Bartók
Author: Elliott Antokoletz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520067479

The basic principles of progression and the means by which tonality is established in Bartók's music remain problematical to many theorists. Elliott Antokoletz here demonstrates that the remarkable continuity of style in Bartók's evolution is founded upon an all-encompassing system of pitch relations in which one can draw together the diverse pitch formations in his music under one unified set of principles.

Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Bartók's Mikrokosmos
Author: Benjamin Suchoff
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2004
Genre: Piano music
ISBN: 0810851636

Now available in paperback! Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos is a collection of 153 pieces for piano designed by the composer as a series graded according to difficulty. The pieces were written between 1926 and 1939, and have become by far the best-known series of teaching pieces by a major composer in the twentieth century. This in-depth study investigates Bartók's Mikrokosmos from three main viewpoints: the genesis of the pieces, their pedagogical value, and their stylistic qualities. The book is intended for piano teachers, students, and performers as well as anyone interested in Bartók's life and work as pianist, educator, and composer. Cloth originally published in 2002 under ISBN 0-8108-4427-3.

Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók
Author: Benjamin Suchoff
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810849587

"With a narrative supported by a substantial number of musical examples and references, Bela Bartok: A Celebration is essential for music teachers and students. Theorists, ethnomusicologists, and musicians will find this an indispensable resource for future research and for understanding Bartok's compositional processes and methodology."--BOOK JACKET.

Piano music of Béla Bartók

Piano music of Béla Bartók
Author: Béla Bartók
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 195
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486241092

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.

Chamber Music

Chamber Music
Author: John H. Baron
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2002
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780415937368

Zoltan Kodaly

Zoltan Kodaly
Author: Michael Houlahan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135655693

First Published in 1998. This book serves as the key to study of Kodaly for an English-speaking audience. The volume presents a biographical outline, a catalog of his compositions according to genre, and over 1,400 annotated primary and secondary sources. Three indexes cover listings by author and title, Kodaly's compositions, and proper names. Primary sources include Kodaly's own essays, articles, lectures on folk music and art music, letters and other documents, and his folk music collections and facsimiles. Secondary sources include: biographical and historical studies; theoretic, analytic, stylistic, and aesthetic studies of his music; discussions of folk music influences and art music influences; studies of his compositional process; and discussions of the Kodaly concept. Doctoral dissertations and Masters theses pertaining to Kodaly are included in this guide. This annotated, topically organized book is the first to draw together the most important primary and secondary bibliographic sources that cover his varied activities as composer, ethnomusicologist, linguist, and educator.

Inside Bluebeard's Castle

Inside Bluebeard's Castle
Author: Carl S. Leafstedt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1999-11-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195109996

This is a study of Bartok's opera ""Bluebeard's Castle"". It adopts a broad approach to the study of opera by introducing, in addition to the expected music-dramatic analysis, topics of an interdisciplinary nature that are new to the field of Bartok studies including a literary study of the libretto