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The String Quartets of Béla Bartók

Tradition and Legacy in Analytical Perspective

Herausgeber: Biró, Dániel Péter; Krebs, Harald

Beschreibung

At the center of Bartók's oeuvre are his string quartets, which are generally acknowledged as some of the most significant pieces of 20th century chamber music. The String Quartets of Béla Bartók examines these remarkable works from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Autor

Dániel Péter Biró is Associate Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Victoria. Dr. Biró completed his PhD in composition at Princeton University in 2004. Awarded the Hungarian Government's Kodály Award for Hungarian composers and the Gigahertz Prize for Electronic Music, his compositions have been performed around the world. Dániel Péter Biró is co-editor of Search - Journal for New Music and Culture. Harald Krebs received his Ph.D. in music theory from Yale University in 1980. He is Distinguished Professor and head of the theory program at the School of Music at the University of Victoria, and President of the Society for Music Theory (2011-13). His book Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann, published by Oxford University Press in 1999, won the Society for Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award in 2002.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9780199936182
• ISBN-10: 0199936188
• Artikelnr.: 38078210