The Music of Bela Bartok (Composers of the Twentieth Century)

by Paul Wilson

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In this book, Paul Wilson presents a new theoretical and analytical approach to the music of Bela Bartok, Hungary's most famous composer and a key figure in twentieth-century music. Wilson explains his theory and then applies it to five important pieces: the Sonata for Piano, the Third Quartet, and movements from the Fifth Quartet, the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, and the Concerto for Orchestra. According to Wilson, earlier critics of Bartok's music have often sought to discover an unvarying precompositional system that accounted for individual musical events. Wilson's approach is different in that he develops a way...Read more
  • ISBN10 0300051115
  • ISBN13 9780300051117
  • Publish Date 27 May 1992
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 29 May 2002
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 232
  • Language English