Scarecrow Press
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978-0-8108-4076-8 • Hardback • December 2001 • $78.00 • (£60.00)
Benjamin Suchoff is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles and a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He has been successor trustee of the estate of Béla Bartók, curator of its New York Bartók Archive, and editor of the fifteen-volume Bartók Archive Studies in Musicology Series and the two volumes of the Bartók Archive Edition series of piano works.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Bartók's Life
Chapter 4 Chapter 1. EARLY MUSICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN HUNGARY
Chapter 5 The Habsburg dynasty
Chapter 6 The Hungarian Minorities
Chapter 7 The Kossuth Rebellion
Chapter 8 Chapter 2. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH: 1881-1899
Chapter 9 Valcer Opus 1
Chapter 10 First Public Appearance
Chapter 11 Rejection of Theism
Chapter 12 Chapter 3. SUMMARY OF HUNGARIAN MUSICAL DIALECT: 1889-1905
Chapter 13 Academy Professors
Chapter 14 Impact of Strauss and Liszt
Chapter 15 Kossuth Symphonic Poem
Chapter 16 Discovery of Rural Folk Song
Chapter 17 Introduction to Kodály
Chapter 18 Chapter 4. FUSION OF NATIONAL SYTLES: 1906-1925
Chapter 19 Discovery of Old-Style Hungarian Folk Song
Chapter 20 Stefi Geyer Episode
Chapter 21 First Encounter with Romanian Folk Song
Chapter 22 Fieldwork in Romanian Villages of Transylvania
Chapter 23 Trailblazing a New Frontier in Ethnomusicology
Chapter 24 Transformation of Folk Music into Art Music
Chapter 25 Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Chapter 26 New Hungarian Music Society
Chapter 27 Advent of the First World War
Chapter 28 The Wooden Prince
Chapter 29 The Miraculous Mandarin
Chapter 30 Chapter 5. SYNTHESIS OF EAST AND WEST: 1926-1945
Chapter 31 First American Tour
Chapter 32 Cantata Profana
Chapter 33 Appointment to the Academy of Sciences
Chapter 34 Austrian Anschluss
Chapter 35 Exile in America
Part 36 Folk Music Research
Chapter 37 Chapter 6. HUNGARIAN FOLK MUSIC
Chapter 38 A. The Old Style of Hungarian Peasant Music
Chapter 39 B. The New Style of Hungarian Peasant Music
Chapter 40 C. Other Tunes in Hungarian Peasant Music
Chapter 41 Table 1: Strophic Structure in Class C Melodies
Chapter 42 Chapter 7. SLOVAK FOLK MUSIC
Chapter 43 Table 2: Classification of Slovak Folk Melodies
Chapter 44 Old Style Melodies
Chapter 45 Mixed Style Melodies
Chapter 46 New Style Melodies
Chapter 47 Chapter 8. ROMANIAN FOLK MUSIC
Chapter 48 RFM.i: Instrumental Melodies
Chapter 49 Table 3: Classification of Romanian Instrumental Folk Melodies
Chapter 50 Instruments
Chapter 51 Dance Genres and Their Choreography
Chapter 52 Musical Characteristics
Chapter 53 RFM.ii: Vocal Melodies
Chapter 54 Table 4: Classification of Romanian Vocal Folk Melodies
Chapter 55 RFM.iii: Texts
Chapter 56 Table 5: Classification of Romanian Folk Texts
Chapter 57 RFM.iv: Carols and Christmas Songs (Colinde)
Chapter 58 Part One—Table 6: Stanza Structure in the Colinda Melodies
Chapter 59 Part Two—Table 7: Classification of the Colinda Texts
Chapter 60 RFM.v: Maramures County
Chapter 61 Table 8: Classification of Maramures County Folk Melodies
Chapter 62 Chapter 9. ARAB FOLK MUSIC FROM THE BISKRA DISTRICT
Chapter 63 Wind Instruments
Chapter 64 Stringed Instruments
Chapter 65 Percussion Instruments
Chapter 66 Vocal Melodies
Chapter 67 Scale and Range
Chapter 68 Musical Form
Chapter 69 Rhythm
Chapter 70 Accompaniment
Chapter 71 Tempo
Chapter 72 Peculiarities of Performance
Chapter 73 Classification of the Instrumental Dance Melodies
Chapter 74 Chapter 10. RUTHENIAN FOLK MELODY
Chapter 75 Chapter 11. YUGOSLAV FOLK MUSIC
Chapter 76 YFM.i: Serbo-Croatian Folk Songs
Chapter 77 Table 9: Morphology of the Serbo-Croatian Vocal Folk Melodies
Chapter 78 Table 10: Selected Data from Bartók's "Tabulation of Material"
Chapter 79 Chapter 12. BULGARIAN FOLK MUSIC
Chapter 80 Table 11: Bartók's Classified Bulgarian Folk Music Collection
Chapter 81 Chapter 13. TURKISH FOLK MUSIC FROM ASIA MINOR
Chapter 82 Table 12: Classification of Turkish Folk Melodies
Chapter 83 Epilogue
Chapter 84 List of Compositions and Editions
Chapter 85 Personalia
Chapter 86 Abbreviations
Chapter 87 Notes
Chapter 88 Select Bibliography
Chapter 89 Index
Chapter 90 About the Author
...Suchoff's survey is valuable precisely because it is so compact. Placing summaries of the various ethnic musics Bartók studied in one place allows the reader to see how much Bartók's criteria for organizing his collections varied.
— Ethnomusicology