THE MOUNTING OF A JEWEL

The marriage between composer and ethnomusicologist in Béla Bartók’s creative musical output.

Contents:

Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3
Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Conclusion Bibliography
Béla Bartók in Transylvania, 1907.

 

“In our case it was not simply a question of recovering an individual melody, treating it in the traditional manner and building it into our composition. […] This would have resulted in mere copy work and would never have led to a new unified solution. Our task was to understand the inner spirit of this hitherto unknown music and create a new musical style based on the essentially inexpressible spirit.” (Béla Bartók. Hungarian Folk Music and Modern Hungarian Music, 1928)

 

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INTRODUCTION

© Rory Braddell
September 2001