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Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition: Case Studies in the Intersection of Modernity and Nationality.
Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition: Case Studies in the Intersection of Modernity and Nationality. By David E. Schneider. (California Studies in 20th-Century Music, 5.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. [xi, 308 p. ISBN-10: 0520245032; ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24503-7. $49.95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographical references, index.
Hungarian music historiography is organized around the following assertion: that Bela Bartok, with the encouragement and cooperation of his colleague and friend Zoltan Kodaly, discovered genuine folk music in the isolated recesses of rural Hungary, where the previous generation had allowed itself to be ...
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Bela Bartok. I. Konzert fur Klavier und Orchester...Edition, [1998], c1954. [Pref. (Peter Bartok) and commentary (M. Koren) in Ger...ca. 23 min. [euro]28.95.] Bela Bartok. 14 Bagatellen fur Klavier, Op. 6...
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- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TOM STRINI January 5, 1996 700+ words
...turned his attention to local folk music, which isolation had helped...Segnitz heard an affinity to Bela Bartok, and he was on the mark. "Bartok is a hero," Sheng said later...the Western musical tree, as Bartok had done with Hungarian music...
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