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Title:
The music of Béla Bartók : a study of tonality and progression in twentieth-century music / Elliott Antokoletz.
Author:
Antokoletz, Elliott.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1984.
Call Number:
ML410.B26 A58 1984
Abstract:
The basic principles of progression and the means by which tonality is established in Bartók's music remain problematical to many theorists. Elliott Antokoletz here demonstrates that the remarkable continuity of style in Bartók's evolution is founded upon an all-encompassing system of pitch relations in which one can draw together the diverse pitch formations in his music under one unified set of principles.
ISBN:
9780520046047

9780520067479
Physical Description:
xviii, 342 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
General Note:
Includes indexes.
Contents:
The musical language of Bartók : historical backgrounds. Folk- and art-music sources ; Orientation toward French, Russian, and Folk-music sources : nonfunctional bases in pentatonic, modal, and whole-tone constructions ; Use of symmetrical pitch collections by Russian, French, and Hungarian composers ; Russian nationalists : symmetrical properties of the dominant-ninth chord ; Russian nationalists, Debussy, and Stravinsky : symmetrical properties of nontraditional as well as traditional (pentatonic and modal) pitch constructions ; Russian nationalists, Scriabin, and Kodaly : symmetrical partitions of the octatonic scale ; Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germanic influences : symmetrical organization of chromatically related keys ; The Schoenberg school : symmetrical formations as the basis of progression in free-atonal compositions ; Berg and Webern : total systematization of the concepts of the interval cycle and inversional symmetry in dodecaphonic serial compositions -- Harmonization of authentic folk tunes -- Symmetrical transformation of the folk modes -- Basic principles of symmetrical pitch construction -- Construction, development, and interaction of intervallic cells -- Tonal centricity based on axes of symmetry -- Interaction of diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone formations -- Generation of interval cycles.
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