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Bartok Perspectives: Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist

Book by Elliott Antokoletz, Victoria Fischer, Benjamin Suchoff; Oxford University Press, 2000

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Bartok, Bela--1881-1945--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses

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...into the three activities of Bela Bartok -- as composer, ethnomusicologist, and pianist...genre or the intended user -- Bartok employed distinctly different...style of his own opera. Peter Bartok, in "Correcting Printed Editions...
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The Life and Music of Bela Bartok

Book by Halsey Stevens; Clarendon Press, 1993

Subjects:

Bartok, Bela--1881-1945, Composers--Hungary--Biography

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...bar of the Third Piano Concerto, Bartok had written --prematurely...Hungarian word vege , the end. For Bartok the man, this was the end: an...meant so much to him. But for Bartok the composer, this was by no means an end...
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Szekely and Bartok: The Story of a Friendship

Book by Claude Kenneson; Amadeus Press, 1994

Subjects:

Bartok, Bela--1881-1945, Composers--Hungary--Biography, Szekely, Zoltan--1903-, Violinists--Hungary--Biography

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...253 dAmbrosio, Alfredo, composer , 54 -55, 71 , 73 , 75...65 , 73 Arriaga, Juan, composer , 256 Aspen Festival 1960...Holland , 51 Aulin, Tor, composer , 38 , 80 , 111 Backhaus...Robertson , Ethel, pianist , 79 Bartok, Bela, composer-pianist...
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Bela Bartok Studies in Ethnomusicology

Book by Benjamin Suchoff; University of Nebraska Press, 1997

Subjects:

Folk Dance Music--Europe, Eastern--History And Criticism, Folk Music--Europe, Eastern--History And Criticism

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...1898-1910 ; Zoltan Kodaly, composer, 3,500 melodies 1904-1922 ; Bela Bartok, composer, 2,700 melodies...Hungarians: Folk Songs , by Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly Budapest...and French preface; Bela Bartok , Hungarian Folk Music , 340...
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Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious

Book by Elliott Antokoletz; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Bartaok, Baela--1881-1945--Kaekszakaallau Herceg Vaara, Debussy, Claude--1862-1918--Pellaeas Et Maelisande, Symbolism In Music

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...significance of the play for the composer, accounts given by those...instance, according to the composers elder son, Bart6k was rather...play may have also attracted Bartok to set the work as an opera...of the playwright or the composer-contribute to the definition...understanding not only of the composers personal psychologi- cal...and career (rejection as a composer and his withdrawal from public...

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Journal Articles on: bartok composer

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The Composer's Voice: "what Women Can Do"

Journal article by Brenda Dalen; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 16, 1995

Subjects:

Archer, Violet, Careers, Composers, Montreal Quebec Canada, Traditions, Women

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...shaping your future as a composer. V.A. Yes. I think so, yes. B.D. Both Bartok and Hindemith were very concerned...think you would have become a composer had your parents stayed in...over there, especially for composers. To give an example, theres...is married to an Italian composer-but shes English originally...International Festival of Women Composers last year. The one whom...
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A Pan-African Composer? Coleridge-Taylor and Africa

Journal article by Paul Richards; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 21, 2001

Subjects:

African music--Influence, Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel--Works, Composers--Works

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...West African friend" who was at the composers side when he died (60). To this snapshot of the composer, toward the end of his life, well...century. Perhaps she sang it to the composer from memory. Dr. Randle certainly would have known the composers father; the world of Sierra Leonean...Coleridge-Taylor musical events), the composer clearly understood Du Bois message. That the composers efforts with the Negro Melodies hit...
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Self-identity and National Identity in Classical Music

Journal article by Anthony Arblaster; Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 30, 2002

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Classical music, Composers, Musicology, Nationalism

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...purposes is that so many composers in this period, from Weber and Glinka to Bartok and Vaughan Williams...typical cosmopolitan composer who leaves his native...But great numbers of composers in this period discovering...example of this is Bela Bartok because Bartok actually reaches musical...example is the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams...
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Deconstructing the Local: the Aesthetic Space and Geographic Place of Oskar Morawetz's String Quartet No. 5 "a Tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" (1991)1

Journal article by Friedemann Sallis; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 24, 2003

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Canada, Classical music, Composers, Morawetz, Oskar, Musical recordings, Musicology, Personal profiles

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...Notwithstanding the composer s own references to...where his career as a composer took place. This essays...study is one of the composers last major achievements...only think of Bela Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg...generation of Canadian composers to emulate or admire...himself as a professional composer. Indeed his success...
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An Interview with György Ligeti in Hamburg

Journal article by Stephen Satory; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 10, 1990

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers, Composition, Hamburg Germany, Ligeti, Gyorgy, String music

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...these interviews, several composers maintained mat their composition...work well known to Hungarian composers.2 In interviewing Ligeti...influences which have affected composers living in Hungary to a much...and-a-half with the composer. We began our conversation...rhythmic elements which rely on Bartok as model. However, your...

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Magazine Articles on: bartok composer

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Bartok: Sonata

Magazine article by Max Harrison; Musical Opinion, Vol. 127, September 2003

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...Bartoks earliest years as a composer than we should. Thus, amid...one which Halsey Stevenss Bartok, published by Oxford University...examples, to it in her book, Bartok and the Piano, reviewed in...recorded it for the first time. Bartok was 17 when he wrote this, and, like most composers of that age, he tells us...
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The Making of a Masterwork

Magazine article by Phillip Coonce; Strings, Vol. 19, November 2004

Subjects:

Bartok, Bela, Classical music, Composers, Composition, Menuhin, Yehudi, Musical performances, String music

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...orchestra) were the best a composer could wish for his work." Upon meeting Bartok before the recital, Menuhin...commission a work by the great composer. "I knew he was in financial...was the greatest of living composers. Unwilling to waste a moment...ASHEVILLE On December 1943 Bartok traveled alone to Asheville...
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The Sound of Resistance: Using Folk Melodies and Bracing Discords, Baltic Composers Railed against Soviet Dominance, Writes Rick Jones

Magazine article by Rick Jones; New Statesman, Vol. 136, July 9, 2007

Subjects:

Bacevicius, Vytautas--Appreciation, Bacevicius, Vytautas--Evaluation, Compact discs, Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Evaluation, Folk music--Usage

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...four CDs of music by as many composers from the Baltic states...the bridge. Three of the composers are living; the fourth...strengthens resistance. Composers in any society appreciate...CD of music by the Latvian composer Peteris Plakidis opens with his exciting, Bartok-inspired "Music for Piano...
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Leos Janacek: A Master Czech Composer

Magazine article by Thomas J. Pniewski; World and I, Vol. 19, October 2004

Subjects:

Composers--Appreciation, Janacek, Leos, Janacek, Leos--Appreciation

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...all with librettos adapted by the composer himself and each with a special significance...and premiered in 1930, after the composers death. While he produced an opera...at the request of Czech violinist/composer Josef Suk, also come from the last...them with the most "cutting edge" composers of the West. English conductor Charles...national yet internationally modern composer.
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Unconstructed Modernist: How Does One Account for the Fall of Pierre Boulez the Composer and the Rise of Pierre Boulez the Conductor?

Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 276, September 1995

Subjects:

Boulez, Pierre--Criticism and interpretation, Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Conductors (Music)--Criticism and interpretation

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...Boulez befriended two composers who challenged his...Stravinsky wrote; the composer himself would be at...fall of Boulez the composer on the rise of Boulez...Ravel, Stravinsky, Bartok, Varese, Berg, Schoenberg...twentieth-century composers Boulez does not perform...direct link between the composer and the conductor...

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Newspaper Articles on: bartok composer

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A Voice of Lust and Blood; ARTS Bela Bartok, Whose Statue Is Going Up outside South Kensington Station, Is Our Link to the Dangerous Edge of Europe

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 29, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Vargas behatted likeness of the composer from his Budapest garden...of a half-cracked English composer who, in 1922, introduced Bartok to London. Sixteen years...South Ken to consecrate the composers statue. With the Cold War over, Bartok is no longer an official concern...
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Bartok Sets out Tempting Stall in Bromsgrove; Christopher Morley Previews the Classical Week Ahead

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 30, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Byline: Christopher Morley Bartok hits North Worcestershire...Hall centred on the Hungarian composers six string quartets. Popular...including the pugnacious Bartok Sonata), and joins the Dukes...comfortable venue is a bed. Bartok in Bromsgroves opening concert...programme begins with Bach, the composer with whom she is perhaps most...
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Reviews: Chambers of Commerce; Bartok in Bromsgrove Spadesbourne Hall, Bromsgrove

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 5, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Chambers of Commerce; Bartok in Bromsgrove Spadesbourne...have centred around one composer, and previous objects...valuable insights into the composers development. This year it was the turn of Bartok to attract music-lovers...rehearsing not only the Bartok giants, but also two...where one senses the composer has something of greater...
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MUSIC AND MUSSOLINI; with Three Pieces by Ottorino Respighi, the Italian Dictator's Favourite Composer, Receiving Their Proms Premieres This Week, William Ward Examines the Cultural Legacy of Fascism

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 5, 2009

Subjects:

Composers, Proms (Parties)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...eminent among symphonic composers of the period was the cautiously...Soviet performers, Jewish composers and American black artists...anti-fascist Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, British figures such as...Menuhin. Even "decadent" composers banned by the Nazis, such...
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Composer and Opera Singer Stars at Music Festival; Philip Key's 08 Culture Diary

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 23, 2008

Subjects:

Composers, Music festivals, Opera singers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Composer and Opera Singer Stars at...Key BRITISH saxophonist/composer John Harle and opera singer...the voice had been "used by composers throughout the ages to express...that includes works by Bela Bartok and Duke Ellington. There...concerti written for him by composers like John Tavener, Michael...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: bartok composer

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BartÓk, BÉla

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BARTOK, BELA ba l bar tok, Hung...tok, 1881 1945, Hungarian composer and collector of folk music...and throughout his life Bartok devoted much attention to...and traditional techniques, Bartok achieved an original modern...
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Beeson, Jack

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BEESON, JACK 1921 , American composer, b. Muncie, Ind. Beeson studied at the Eastman School of Music and privately in New York with Bela Bartok. Beginning to teach at Columbia Univ. in 1945, he was named MacDowell Professor of Music in 1967...
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Goodman, Benny

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Benjamin David Goodman), 1909 86, American clarinetist, composer, and band leader, b. Chicago. Goodman studied clarinet...particularly with the Budapest String Quartet. He commissioned Bela Bartok to compose Contrasts, for violin, clarinet, and piano...
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KodÁly, ZoltÁn

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

KODALY, ZOLTAN zol tan ko di, 1882 1967, Hungarian composer and collector of folk music. In 1906 he began to teach...raise the standards of music education in Hungary. With Bartok he collected thousands of Hungarian folk songs and dances...
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Henze, Hans Werner

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HENZE, HANS WERNER hans ver n r hen ts , 1926 , German composer, b. Gutersloh. Henze was a pupil of Wolfgang Fortner and...early works were influenced by Stravinsky , Hindemith , and Bartok . In his first violin concerto (1947) he took up twelve...

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