| Uniform title | Bartók kamarazenéje. English |
| Contents |
Introduction. The place of chamber music in Bartok's oeuvre -- Part one. Musical idiom and style. The legacy of Beethoven -- Forerunners and contemporaries -- The folk music influence -- Monothematicism and variation -- "Polymodal chromaticism" -- Tonality and polytonality - the phenomenon of mistuning -- Part two. Analyses. Early chamber works -- The first string quartet -- The second string quartet -- The two sonatas for violin and piano -- The third string quartet -- The fourth string quartet -- The fifth string quartet -- Sonata for two pianos and percussion -- Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano -- The sixth string quartet. |
| Abstract |
At first sight a work devoted to Bartók's chamber music looks as though it were simply concerned with a genre division attempting an exposition of no more than a single aspect of the whole oeuvre. But in Bartók's case the chamber music is not simply a matter of grouping according to genre-it is really the framework for his whole oeuvre. The author, one of the outstanding scholars in the field of Bartók research here presents a revised and expanded edition of his Bartók's String Quartets. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-499) and index. |
| LCCN | 93045813 |
| ISBN | 094519319X : |
