Benjamin Suchoff

Béla Bartók: A Celebration

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This compilation of essays, lectures, and scholarly papers on Bart k studies from 1953 to the present includes insights obtained by the author over a half-century career as a Bart k specialist.Divided into three parts, chapters examine Bart k as a multifaceted music figure: composer, folklorist, pianist, and teacher. As composer, it includes program notes, an introduction to his principles of composition, and theoretic-analytical discussion of selected works, including Mikrokosmos. As folklorist, it examines the outcome of Bart k's fieldwork, methodology, and findings in East European, Arabic, and Turkist autochthonous folk music materials. Bart k's American years are also discussed. The narrative is supported by a substantial number of musical examples and references.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780810849587
• ISBN-10: 0810849585
• Artikelnr.: 21178242

Autorenporträt

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 Béla Bartók, curator of its New York Bartók Archive, and editor of the fifteen-volume Bartók Archive Studies in Musicology Series and the two volumes of the Bartók Archive Edition series of piano works.