TY  - GEN
T1  - Béla Bartók : composition, concepts, and autograph sources
T2  - Ernest Bloch lectures ;
A1  - Somfai, László
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1301786869
AB  - 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.
OP  - 334
NO  - Series statement from jacket.
CN  - ML410.B26 S59 1996
SN  - 9780520914612
SN  - 0520914619
SN  - 0520084853
SN  - 9780520084858
KW  - Bartók, Béla, : 1881-1945 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Bartók, Béla, : 1881-1945 : Manuscripts.
KW  - Bartók, Béla, : 1881-1945
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Music.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Manuscripts
ER  -