Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 Abbreviations Part 4 PART ONE Compositions Chapter 5 1. Béla Bartók: A Celebration Chapter 6 2. Bartók's Fusion of National Styles Chapter 7 3. Second String Quartet: Stylistic Landmark Chapter 8 4. Impact of Italian Baroque Music on Bartók's Music Chapter 9 5. History of Bartók's Mikrokosmos Chapter 10 6. Sixth String Quartet: Structure and Concept Chapter 11 7. Genesis and Development of the Concerto for Orchestra Chapter 12 8. Some Observations on Bartók's Third Piano Concerto Chapter 13 9. Folk-Music Sources in Bartók Works Chapter 14 10. Ethnomusicological Roots of Béla Bartók's Musical Language Chapter 15 11. Approaching Bartók's Principles of Composition Part 16 PART TWO Musical Folklore Chapter 17 12. Preface to The Hungarian Folk Song Chapter 18 13. Bartók and Hungarian Folk Music Chapter 19 14. Slovak Folk Songs: Music and Politics Chapter 20 15. Bartók's Romanian Folk Music Publication Chapter 21 16. Bartók and Yugoslav Folk Music Chapter 22 17. Preface to Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor Part 23 PART THREE General Studies Chapter 24 18. Bartók as a Man of Letters Chapter 25 19. The Bartók-Kodály Connection Chapter 26 20. Bartók in America Chapter 27 21. The New York Bartók Archive: History and Sources Part 28 Index Part 29 About the Author

About the Author

Benjamin Suchoff is adjunct professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles and a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He has been successor trustee of the estate of Bela Bartok, curator of its New York Bartok Archive, and editor of the fifteen-volume Bartok Archive Studies in Musicology Series and the two volumes of the Bartok Archive Edition series of piano works.

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Emphasis on Bartók's studies in folk song and folklore pervades all three sections, making the volume...valuable to those in ethnomusicology
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