Bela Bartók studies in ethnomusicology / selected and edited by Benjamin Suchoff.

Author/creator Bartók, Béla
Other author Suchoff, Benjamin, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1997.
Descriptionxxiii, 295 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Subjects
Folk music--Europe, Eastern. --History and criticism.
Folk dance music--Europe, Eastern. --History and criticism.

Uniform titleEssays. Selections. English
Contents Editor's preface. Musical developments in nineteenth-century greater Hungary ; Bartók and Hungarian folk music ; The folk music of the national minorities (Slovak folk music ; Romanian folk music) ; Arab folk music ; Post-World War I developments: 1920-1929 ; Pre-World War II events: 1930-1939 ; Bartók in New York: 1940-1945 -- Preface to "Romanian folk songs from Bihor County". Explanation of signs -- Draft of the new universal collection of folk songs. The draft of our Hungarian folk song collection. The material ; The system of the publication ; Index tables ; Format and content ; Supplementary volumes -- Arab folk music from the Biskra district. Wind instruments ; Stringed instruments ; Percussion instruments ; Scale and range ; Musical form ; Rhythm ; Accompaniment ; Tempo ; Peculiarities of performance ; Relation between melody and text ; A trial classification of the instrumental dance melodies ; Explanation of the signs used in the music notations -- Transylvanian Hungarians: folk songs. Preface ; Explanation of the musical signs -- Hungarian folk music -- Romanian folk music -- The peasant music of Hungary -- The Bartók-Möller polemical interchange -- New results of folk song research in Hungary -- Hungarian folk music -- Romanian folk music -- Slovak folk Music -- Folk music and folk songs. General observations ; Detailed observations -- Hungarian folk music and the folk music of neighboring peoples. The old Hungarian folk music ; The new Hungarian folk music ; Other tunes in Hungarian folk music ; Urban folk songs ; The reciprocal influence of folk music ; German folk melody and that of the Hungarian people ; Slovak folk melody and that of the Hungarian people ; The Ruthenian folk melody and the Hungarian folk melody ; The folk melody of the Romanians ; The reciprocal relations of the Hungarian and the Romanian folk melodies ; Serbo-Croatian folk music and the Hungarian folk music ; Appendix -- Introduction to "Slovak folk songs". Origin and aim of this collection ; On peasant music ; Arrangement (Classification) of the materials (First method of classification ; Second method of classification) ; Previous publications ; Classification of variants published elsewhere ; Peculiarities of performance ; Instruments (Bagpipe ; Peasant trumpet ; Military trumpet ; Flutes) ; Peculiarities in the texts (General peculiarities ; Regional peculiarities) ; Remarks on the texts and performers ; Characteristics of genuine Slovak folk melodies ; The so-called Valaská melodies ; Nonautochthonous materials ; Glossary.
Abstract Composer, folklorist, and performer Bela Bartok (1881-1945) is internationally renowned as one of the most important and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Throughout his life he wrote lectures and essays that dealt with virtually every aspect of East European folk music. Many of those essays, previously scattered in specialty journals in four different languages, are collected here for the first time. All are concerned with that branch of musicology within which Bartok was most influential, and for which he is best known: research into folk music, or ethnomusicology. The volume includes a preface by editor Benjamin Suchoff, a leading expert on Bartok's music and writings. He examines Bartok's developing views on the folk-music traditions of Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Arab world.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96026380
ISBN0803242476 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML3580 .B37 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold