Bela Bartok: Composition, Concepts, and Autograph SourcesUniversity of California Press, 22 déc. 2023 - 340 pages This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music. For Bèla Bartók, composition often began with improvisation at the piano. Làszló Somfai maintains that Bartók composed without preconceived musical theories and refused to teach composition precisely for this reason. He was not an analytical composer but a musical creator for whom intuition played a central role. These conclusions are the result of Somfai's three decades of work with Bartók's oeuvre; of careful analysis of some 3,600 pages of sketches, drafts, and autograph manuscripts; and of the study of documents reflecting the development of Bartók's compositions. Included as well are corrections preserved only on recordings of Bartók's performances of his own works. Somfai also provides the first comprehensive catalog of every known work of Bartók, published and unpublished, and of all extant draft, sketch, and preparatory material. His book will be basic to all future scholarly work on Bartók and will assist performers in clarifying the problems of Bartók notation. Moreover, it will be a model for future work on other major composers. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Bartok on Composition His Concepts and Works | 9 |
A Survey of the Sources | 25 |
Sketches and the Plan of a Work | 33 |
Fragments Unrealized Plans | 83 |
Paper Studies and the MicroChronology of the Composition | 96 |
The Key Manuscript The Draft | 113 |
Final Copy Orchestration Reduction Arrangement | 204 |
Editing and Correcting Process | 229 |
On Bartoks Notation and Performance Style | 252 |
List of Works and Primary Sources | 297 |
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1st edition 2-piano addition Autogr autograph Bagatelles Bartók's compositional Bartókian Béla Bartók Jr bifolio Black Pocket-book Boosey & Hawkes Celesta composer composer's Concerto for Orchestra continuity sketches copyist Copyright corrected copy Corrected proof sheets Dance Suite Ditta draft score edition PB Essays EXAMPLE facsimile edition fair copy final form folk music fragment full score Hungarian Hungarian Folksongs ideas Kodály Lichtpause manuscript Márta measures melody metronome Mikrokosmos missing motive Music for Strings music paper notation notes numbers ostinato partial sketches Percussion performance Piano Concerto Piano Pieces Piano Sonata printed printer's copy revised copy Rhapsody rhythm Rózsavölgyi rubato Rumanian Folk Dances Scherzo short score side sketches Sonata for Violin Songs sources staves String Quartet Székely tempo thematic theme tion tissue proofs transcription Universal Edition variant Violin and Piano Violin Concerto voice and piano Wooden Prince written Zoltán Székely