Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Bartok's Life | |
Early Musical Developments in Hungary | p. 3 |
The Habsburg dynasty | p. 5 |
The Hungarian Minorities | p. 7 |
The Kossuth Rebellion | p. 10 |
Childhood and Youth: 1881-1899 | p. 14 |
Valcer Opus 1 | p. 17 |
First Public Appearance | p. 18 |
Rejection of Theism | p. 21 |
Summary of Hungarian Musical Dialect: 1889-1905 | p. 24 |
The Academy Professors | p. 25 |
The Impact of Strauss and Liszt | p. 28 |
Kossuth Symphonic Poem | p. 35 |
Discovery of Indigenous Rural Folk Song | p. 42 |
Bartok and Kodaly | p. 45 |
Fusion of National Styles: 1906-1925 | p. 50 |
The Discovry of Old-Style Hungarian Folk Song | p. 54 |
The Stefi Geyer Episode | p. 55 |
The First Encounter with Romanian Folk Song | p. 63 |
Fieldwork in Romanian Villages of Transylvania | p. 66 |
Trailblazing a New Frontier in Ethnomusicology | p. 69 |
Transformation of Folk Music into Art Music | p. 70 |
Duke Bluebeard's Castle, op. 11 | p. 72 |
The New Hungarian Music Society | p. 75 |
The Advent of the First World War | p. 76 |
The Wooden Prince, op. 13 | p. 84 |
The Miraculous Mandarin, op. 19 | p. 89 |
Synthesis of East and West: 1926-1945 | p. 103 |
First American Tour | p. 108 |
Cantata Profana | p. 112 |
Appointment to the Academy of Sciences | p. 128 |
Austrian Anschluss | p. 133 |
Exile in America | p. 143 |
Folk Music Research | |
Hungarian Folk Music | p. 163 |
The Old Style of Hungarian Peasant Music | p. 165 |
The New Style of Hungarian Peasant Music | p. 166 |
Other Tunes in Hungarian Peasant Music | p. 167 |
Strophic Structure in Class C Melodies | p. 167 |
Slovak Folk Music | p. 169 |
Classification of Slovak Folk Melodies | p. 169 |
Old Style Melodies | p. 170 |
Mixed Style Melodies | p. 170 |
New Style Melodies | p. 171 |
Romanian Folk Music | p. 172 |
Instrumental Melodies | p. 173 |
Classification of Romanian Instrumental Folk Melodies | p. 173 |
Instruments | p. 174 |
Dance Genres and Their Choreography | p. 175 |
Musical Characteristics | p. 175 |
Vocal Melodies | p. 177 |
Classification of Romanian Vocal Folk Melodies | p. 177 |
Texts | p. 179 |
Classification of Romanian Folk Texts | p. 179 |
Carols and Christmas Songs (Colinde) | p. 181 |
Stanza Structure in the Colinda Melodies | p. 182 |
Classification of the Colinda Texts | p. 183 |
Maramures County | p. 186 |
Classification of Maramures County Folk Melodies | p. 187 |
Arab Folk Music from the Biskra District | p. 189 |
Wind Instruments | p. 189 |
Stringed Instruments | p. 190 |
Percussion Instruments | p. 190 |
Vocal Melodies | p. 191 |
Scale and Range | p. 191 |
Musical Form | p. 192 |
Rhythm | p. 192 |
Accompaniment | p. 193 |
Tempo | p. 193 |
Peculiarities of Performance | p. 193 |
Classification of the Instrumental Dance Melodies | p. 194 |
Ruthenian Folk Melody | p. 195 |
Yugoslav Folk Music | p. 198 |
Serbo-Croatian Folk Songs | p. 203 |
Morphology of the Serbo-Croatian Vocal Folk Melodies | p. 206 |
Tabulation of Yugoslav Melodies | p. 206 |
Tabulation of Material | p. 208 |
Selected Data from Bartok's "Tabulation of Material" | p. 208 |
Bulgarian Folk Music | p. 209 |
Bartok's Classified Bulgarian Folk Music Collection | p. 210 |
Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor | p. 212 |
Classification of Turkish Folk Melodies | p. 213 |
Epilogue | p. 215 |
List of Compositions | p. 219 |
Personalia | p. 260 |
Abbreviations | p. 264 |
Notes | p. 266 |
Select Bibliography | p. 298 |
Index | p. 311 |
About the Author | p. 327 |
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