Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 334 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780520914612
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0520914619
Series Statement:
[The Ernest Bloch lectures in music 9]
Content:
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
Note:
Series statement from jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520084853
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520084858
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Somfai, László Bela Bartok Berkeley : University of California Press,c1996 ISBN 9780520084858
Language:
English
Author information:
Somfai, László 1934-
