Bartók's music is greatly prized by concertgoers, yet we know little about the intellectual milieu that gave rise to his artistry. Bartók is often seen as a lonely genius emerging from a gray background of an "underdeveloped country." Now Judit Frigyesi offers a broader perspective on Bartók's art by grounding it in the social and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Hungary and the intense creativity of its modernist movement. Bartók spent most of his life in Budapest, an exceptional man living in a remarkable milieu. Frigyesi argues that Hungarian modernism in general and Bartók's aesthetic in particular should be understood in terms of a collective search for wholeness in life and art and for a definition of identity in a rapidly changing world. Is it still possible, Bartók's generation of artists asked, to create coherent art in a world that is no longer whole? Bartók and others were preoccupied with this question and developed their aesthetics in response to it. In a discussion of Bartók and of Endre Ady, the most influential Hungarian poet of the time, Frigyesi demonstrates how different branches of art and different personalities responded to the same set of problems, creating oeuvres that appear as reflections of one another. She also examines Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, exploring philosophical and poetic ideas of Hungarian modernism and linking Bartók's stylistic innovations to these concepts.
... Hungary at the turn of the twentieth century 1 See Tibor Tallián , Béla Bartók : The Man and His Work , trans . Gyula Gulyás , trans . rev . Paul Merrick ( Budapest : Corvina , 1988 ) , pp . 24 and 57 for further details . 2 Berkeley ...
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Most of the essays in this book were solicited for the tenth anniversary of the journal 19th Century Music, which has sought to encourage innovative writing about music--musicological, theoretical, and/or critical writing--since its ...
Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious Elliott Antokoletz, Juana Canabal Antokoletz. ———. “The Relation of Folk Song ... In Béla Bartók Essays, ed. ... In Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, Studies on Hysteria, trans. and ed.
This book examines these remarkable works from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
... New Light on Liszt and his Music, edited by Michael Saffle and James Deaville, 3–16. Franz Liszt Studies Series 6. Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press, 1997. ———. “Liszt, the Future's Musician and Man.” In Liszt the. 320 ❧ bibliography.
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... early work of György Króo ( " Duke Bluebeard's Castle , ” Studia Musicologica 1 [ 1961 ] : 251-340 ) and in Judit Frigyesi's Béla Bartók and Turn - of - the - Century Budapest ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1998 ) , two ...
The Music of Béla Bartók: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory ...
This volume examines music's place in the process of Jewish assimilation into the modern European bourgeoisie and the role assigned to music in forging a new Jewish Israeli national identity, in maintaining a separate Sephardic identity, ...