Bartók, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition : Case Studies in the Intersection of Modernity and Nationality /
It is well known that Bela Bartok had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe. What this rich and beautifully written study makes clear is that, contrary to much prevailing thought about the great twentieth-century Hungarian composer, Bartok was...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tradition rejected : Bartók's polemics and the nineteenth-century Hungarian musical inheritance
- Tradition maintained : nationalism, verbunkos, Kossuth and the Rhapsody, op. 1
- Tradition transformed : "The night's music" and the pastoral roots of a modern style
- Tradition challenged : confronting Stravinsky
- Tradition transcribed : the Rhapsody for violin no. 1, the politics of folk-music research and the artifice of authenticity
- Tradition restored : the Violin concerto, verbunkos and Hungary on the eve of World War II.