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Bartok, Hungary, and the Renewal of Tradition: Case Studies in the Intersection of Modernity and Nationality
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Author
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David E. Schneider.
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Publisher
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California
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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6.25
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0.95
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ISBN
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9780520245037
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Pages/Publication Date
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308/2006
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Daedalus Item Code
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14117
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Description
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It is well known that Béla Bartók had an extraordinary ability to synthesize Western art music with the folk music of Eastern Europe. What David Schneider's rich and beautifully written study makes clear is that, contrary to much prevailing thought about the great 20th-century Hungarian composer, Bartók was also strongly influenced by the art-music traditions of his native country. Schneider presents a new approach to Bartók that acknowledges the composer's debt to a variety of Hungarian music traditions as well as to such contemporaries as Igor Stravinsky. Examining representative works from each decade between Bartók's graduation from the Music Academy in 1903 and his departure for the United States in 1940, Schneider reads the composer's artistic output as both a continuation and a profound transformation of the national tradition he repeatedly rejected in public.
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