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Bela Bartok: Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources
Laszlo Somfai
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Description for Bela Bartok: Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources
Hardback. The account of Bartok'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. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 340 pages, 90 b&w illustrations, 84 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DVH; AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 187 x 27. Weight in Grams: 826.
This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartok'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 Bela Bartok, composition often began with improvisation at the piano. Laszlo Somfai maintains that Bartok composed without preconceived musical theories and refused to teach composition precisely for this reason. He was not an analytical composer but a musical creator for whom intuition played a central role. These conclusions are the result of Somfai's three decades of work with Bartok's oeuvre; ... Read more
This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartok'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 Bela Bartok, composition often began with improvisation at the piano. Laszlo Somfai maintains that Bartok composed without preconceived musical theories and refused to teach composition precisely for this reason. He was not an analytical composer but a musical creator for whom intuition played a central role. These conclusions are the result of Somfai's three decades of work with Bartok's oeuvre; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Series
Ernest Bloch Lectures
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520084858
SKU
V9780520084858
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About Laszlo Somfai
Laszlo Somfai is the Director of the Bartok Archives in Budapest and Professor of Musicology at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He has published books on Haydn, Bartok, and Webern in German and Hungarian, and an English edition of The Keyboard Sonatas of Joseph Haydn (1995).
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