Bela Bartok A Research and Information Guide [Hardcover]

This research guide is an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources and  catalogue of Bart?ks compositions. Since the publication of the second edition, a wealth of information has been proliferating in the field of Bart?k research. The third edition of this research guide provides an update in this field and represents the multidisciplinary research areas in the growing Bart?k literature.

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

History of Bart?k's Musical Development: An Introduction

1. Basic Sources of Bart?k's Style

2. Early Germanic Musical Influences from 1897 to 1902

3. Influence of Liszt, the Magyar N?ta, and First Contact with Authentic Hungarian Folk Music (1902-1905)

4. Bart?k's First Folk-Music Investigations, His Discovery of Debussy, and Early Compositional Results (1905 through World War I)

5. Expanded Folk-Music Investigations and First Mature Compositions

6. Toward Synthesis of Divergent Art- and Folk-Music Sources

7. End of World War I to Mid-1920s

8. Final Period (1926-1945)

9. Last Years in the United States (1940-1945)

I. Published Compositions According to Genre: With Publishers, Archives, Collections, and Catalogues

Catalogue of Compositions

1. Piano Solo

2. Chamber Music

3. Solo Instruments and Orchestra

4. Full or Small Orchestra

5. Solo Voice and Piano

6. Chorus, A Cappella and with Piano

7. Voice and Orchestra

8. Chorus and Orchestra

9. Stage Works

10. Bart?k's Editions and Transcriptions of Keyboard Works by Other Composers

II. Primary Sources: Bart?k's Writings and Other Documents

1. Articles bl“?