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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1996.
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| Series: | Ernest Bloch lectures ;
9. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8441792 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Series statement from jacket. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 334 pages : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780520914612 0520914619 0520084853 9780520084858 |