Béla Bartók : composition, concepts, and autograph sources /

This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music. For Bèla Bartók, co...

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Hlavní autor: Somfai, László
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1996.
Edice:Ernest Bloch lectures ; 9.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8441792
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Shrnutí:This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music. For Bèla Bartók, composition often began with improvisation at the piano. Làszló Somfai maintains that Bartók composed without preconceived musical theories and refused.
Popis jednotky:Series statement from jacket.
Fyzický popis:1 online resource (xxii, 334 pages : illustrations.
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes.
ISBN:9780520914612
0520914619
0520084853
9780520084858