Bartók perspectives
Subtitle: man, composer, and ethnomusicologist
By: edited by Elliott Antokoletz, Victoria Fischer, Benjamin Suchoff.
Contributors: Antokoletz, Elliott.; Fischer, Victoria.; Suchoff, Benjamin.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780195125627
Subjects: Bartók, Béla, -- 1881-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers delivered at the International Bartók Conference, held at Radford University, Radford, Va., Apr. 6-9, 1995 and at the Bartók in Retrospect International Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles, Oct. 17-18, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Chronological list of cited Bartók compositions": p. 303-304.
Table of contents: title: 1. Perspectives in Bartók research / Elliott Antokoletz; title: I. Career and work as folklorist. 2. Bartók's odyssey in Slovak folk music / Benjamin Suchoff; title: 3. Bartók on Southslavic epic songs / Stephen Erdely; title: II. Analytical and theoretical studies. 4. Analyzing Bartók's works of 1918-1922: motives, tone patches, and tonal mosaics / Malcolm Gillies; title: 5. Modal transformation and musical symbolism in Bartók's Cantata Profana / Elliott Antokoletz; title: 6. Organic expansion and classical structure in Bartók's Sonata for two pianos and percussion / Elliott Antokoletz; title: 7. The benefits of "relaxation": the role of the "Pihenő" movement in Béla Bartók's Contrasts / John K. Novak; title: III. Style and aesthetics. 8. The genesis of Bartók's musical language / Benjamin Suchoff; title: 9. Love and anguish: Bartók's expressionism / Dorothy Lamb Crawford; title: 10. The Verbunkos and Bartók's modern style: the case of Duke Bluebeard's castle / Judit Frigyesi; title: 11. Bartók's Concerto for orchestra (1943) and Janác̆ek's Sinfonietta (1926): conceptual and motivic parallels / James Porter; title: IV. Folk music influences. 12. Bartók in North Africa: a unique fieldwork and its impact on his music / János Kárpáti; title: 13. Background and analysis of Bartók's Romanian Christmas carols for piano (1915) / David Yeomans; title: 14. Béla Bartók and Bulgarian rhythm / Timothy Rice; title: V. Compositional process. 15. Bartók's notations in composition and transcription / László Somfai; title: 16. Pelléas revealed: the original ending of Bartók's opera, Duke Bluebeard's castle / Carl S. Leafstedt; title: 17. Correcting printed editions of Béla Bartók's Viola concerto and other compositions / Peter Bartók; title: 18. Deciphering Béla Bartók's viola concerto sketch / Nelson Dellamaggiore; title: VI. Orientation toward pedagogy. 19. Bartók's fourteen bagatelles op.6, for piano: toward performance authenticity / Victoria Fischer; title: VII. Reception history. 20. The canonization of Béla Bartók / Malcolm Gillies.