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Book SynopsisIt is well known that Bela Bartok had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe. This study presents a different approach to Bartok that acknowledges the composer's debt to a variety of Hungarian music traditions as well as to influential contemporaries such as Igor Stravinsky.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Tradition Rejected: Bartok's Polemics and the Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Musical Inheritance 2. Tradition Maintained: Nationalism, Verbunkos, Kossuth, and the Rhapsody, Op. 1 3. Tradition Transformed: "The Night's Music" and the Pastoral Roots of a Modern Style 4. Tradition Challenged: Confronting Stravinsky 5. Tradition Transcribed: The Rhapsody for Violin No. 1, the Politics of Folk-Music Research, and the Artifice of Authenticity 6. Tradition Restored: The Violin Concerto, Verbunkos, and Hungary on the Eve of World War II Notes Bibliography Index
