| Uniform title | Bartók Béla válogatott zenei írásai. English |
| Series |
The New York Bartók Archive studies in musicology ; no. 8
New York Bartók Archive studies in musicology ; no. 8. ^A632389
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| Contents |
The investigation of musical folklore. Hungarian folk music -- What is folk music? -- Why and how do we collect folk music? -- Folk song research and nationalism -- Race purity in music -- Folk song research in Eastern Europe -- National folk music. American-British. On American and British folk music material -- Arabic. At the congress for Arab music, Cairo, 1932 -- Hungarian. The melodies of the Hungarian soldiers' songs ; Hungarian folk music ; Hungarian folk music ; Hungarian peasant music -- Rumanian. The folk music dialect of the Hunedoara Rumanians ; Rumanian folk music ; Rumanian folk music -- Slovak. Slovak folk music ; Slovak folk music ; Slovak peasant music -- Turkish. Folk song collecting in Turkey -- Yugoslav. The Parry collection of Yugoslav folk music -- Comparative music folklore. Comparative music folklore -- Music folklore -- Music folklore research in Hungary -- Some problems of folk music research in East Europe -- Book reviews and polemics. Observations on Rumanian folk music -- Reply to Jeno Hubay -- He who knows no Arabic -- Gipsy music or Hungarian music? -- Bela Bartok replies to Percy Grainger -- Letter to the Kisfaludy society -- Answer to the Petranu Attack -- Musical instruments. The folklore of instruments and their music in Eastern Europe -- The performance of works written for the clavecin -- Hungarian art-instruments -- About the 'piano' problem -- Mechanical music -- The relation between folk music and art music. On Hungarian music -- Hungarian peasant music -- The influence of folk music on the art music of today -- The relation of folk song to the development of the art music of our time -- The folk songs of Hungary -- The influence of peasant music on modern music -- On the significance of folk music -- The relation between contemporary Hungarian art music and folk music -- Harvard lectures -- Hungarian music -- The life and music of Bela Bartok. Kossuth symphonic poem -- Rhapsody for piano and orchestra -- About The Wooden Prince -- On Duke Bluebeard's Castle -- Autobiography -- Structure of the Fourth String Quartet -- Analysis for the Fifth String Quartet -- Structure of Music for String Instruments -- About the Sonata for two pianos and percussion -- Analysis of the Second concerto for piano and orchestra -- Preface to Mikrokosmos -- Contemporary music in piano teaching -- Explanation to concerto for orchestra -- Introduction to Bela Bartok Masterpieces for the Piano -- My activities during the war -- On music and musicians. Strauss: Sinfonia domestica (op. 53) -- Strauss: Elektra -- Preface and notes to Bach's Well-tempered Clavier -- A Delius premiere in Vienna -- Liszt's music and today's public -- The problem of the new music -- Post-war musical life in Budapest to February, 1920 -- Musical events in Budapest, March-May, 1920 -- Arnold Schoenberg's music in Hungary -- Zoltan Kodaly -- Musical events in Budapest: October 1920 to February 1921 -- On modern music in Hungary -- Musical events in Budapest, March-June 1921 -- Two unpublished Liszt letters to Mosonyi -- Introduction to Masterworks of Piano Literature -- About Istvan Thoman -- About Bela Bartok's Russian tour -- Editor's note to XVIIth and XVIIIth Century Italian Cembalo and Organ Music -- Draft resolution -- Motion in the committee of intellectual co-operation of the League of Nations -- Liszt problems -- On music education for the Turkish people -- Bela Bartok's opinion on the technical, aesthetic, and spiritual orientation of contemporary music -- The influence of Debussy and Ravel in Hungary -- Bence Szabolcsi -- To sir Henry Wood -- Some linguistic observations. |
| Abstract |
This important collection of essays shows the wide range of Bartok's personality. His solutions to the choice and collection of musical folklore, and especially of folk music of the Eastern European nations; his pioneer work in comparative musicology; his studies of folk instruments and art instruments; his comparison of Hungarian folk music and art music; his critical writings; his commentaries on his own life and music: these subjects are represented by material music of which is now made available for the first time, including texts of the series of lectures for Harvard in 1943 which Bartok was obliged by illness to cancel half way through. Here he concentrated on the subject central to his attention, the relation between folk music and art music, while also disclosing the thoughts of a great composer on the music and related arts of his contemporaries. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-555) and index. |
| LCCN | 76005202 |
