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Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition - Case Studies in the Intersection of Modernity and Nationality (Hardcover)
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Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition - Case Studies in the Intersection of Modernity and Nationality (Hardcover)
Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music, 5
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It is well known that Bela Bartok had an extraordinary ability to
synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe.
What this rich and beautifully written study makes clear is that,
contrary to much prevailing thought about the great
twentieth-century Hungarian composer, Bartok was also strongly
influenced by the art-music traditions of his native country.
Drawing from a wide array of material including contemporary
reviews and little known Hungarian documents, David Schneider
presents a new 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. Putting
representative works from each decade beginning with Bartok's
graduation from the Music Academy in 1903 until his departure for
the United States in 1940 under critical lens, Schneider reads the
composer's artistic output as both a continuation and a profound
transformation of the very national tradition he repeatedly
rejected in public. By clarifying why Bartok felt compelled to
obscure his ties to the past and by illuminating what that past
actually was, Schneider dispels myths about Bartok's relationship
to nineteenth-century traditions and at the same time provides a
new perspective on the relationship between nationalism and
modernism in early-twentieth century music.
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