Béla Bartók and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780520222540
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Cultural studies; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Theory of music & musicology; Instruction & Study - Appreciation; Music/Songbooks; Music; Hungary; Aesthetics; Ethnic; Music / General; History & Criticism - General
First sentence: Throughout the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, three interrelated elements informed the process of intellectual and cultural change: an awareness of the disappearance of order, a renewed commitment to an ideal of coherence, and a search for self-identity.