Author : Paul Wilson
Release : 1992-01-01
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Music of Béla Bartók by : Paul Wilson
Download or read book The Music of Béla Bartók written by Paul Wilson. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sought to discover an unvarying precompositional system that accounted for individual musical events. Wilson's approach is different in that he develops a way to explore each work within the musical contexts that the work itself creates and sustains. Wilson begins by discussing a number of fundamental musical materials that Bartok employed throughout his oeuvre. Using these materials as foundations, he then describes a series of flexible, behaviorally defined harmonic.