JÁNOS KÁRPÁTI studied musicology at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest,
where he now teaches and holds the position of director of the academy's library.
His main musicological interests are twentieth-century music and Asian musical
cultures. In Bartók studies he is probably best known for his analyses of the cham-
ber music; his English-language volume Bartók's String Quartets was published
in 1975.

CARL S. LEAFSTEDT is assistant professor of music at the University of North Car-
olina in Greensboro. In 1994, he completed his doctoral studies in musicology at
Harvard University with a study of Béla Bartók's opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
Leafstedt has written on Bartók and Stravinsky for Notes and College Music Sympo-
sium and is the author of a book on Duke Bluebeard's Castle ( 1999).

JOHN K. NOVAK received his Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Texas
at Austin and is currently teaching music theory at Northern Illinois University. He
has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and served as a visiting professor at
the Oberlin Conservatory. Novak has written book reviews for Notes and several ar-
ticles on Janáček and Dvořák. He continues to perform as pianist and accordionist,
for which he has received acclaim.

JAMES PORTER studied at the Universities of St. Andrews and Edinburgh and was
a British Council Fellow in Czechoslovakia in 1965-66. As professor of folklore and
ethnomusicology he taught courses and seminars in European folk music at the
University of California, Los Angeles, serving as chair of the latter's department of
ethnomusicology from 1992 to 1995. A founding editor of the Garland Encyclopedia
of World Music and co-editor of its Europe volume, he has also contributed numer-
ous entries for Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He is currently director
of the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

TIMOTHY RICE, professor and chair of ethnomusicology at the University of
California, Los Angeles, has done extensive fieldwork in Bulgaria and Macedonia,
resulting in a number of articles and a recent book, May It Fill Your Soul. Experi-
encing Bulgarian Music ( 1994). He has contributed to theory and method in ethno-
musicology in articles and as editor of the journal Ethnomusicology ( 1981-84) and of
a book, Cross-cultural Perspectives on Music ( 1982).

LÁSZLÓ SOMFAI is professor of musicology at the Liszt Academy of Music and
since 1972 director of the Bartók Archivum in Budapest. He was music librarian in
the Széchényi National Library. He is a member of the board of IMS, the Zentral-
institut der Mozart-forschung Salzburg, and the Joseph Haydn-Institut, Cologne.
Somfai's prolific output includes several books about Haydn and articles about
almost all aspects of Bartók's activity. His latest collection of essays, Béla Bartók:
Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources, was published in 1996. Somfai is chief
editor of the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition.

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