Bela Bartok

Analysis of Bartok's Music For Strings Percussion, and Celesta,1st Movement (see Larry Solomon below).
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Bartok music files
  • Bartok at MidiWorld
  • Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Divertimento - Realaudio
Bartok complete works
  • A Concise Chronological List of Béla Bartók's Compositions
Some Bartok webpages
  • The Musical Times (1945)
  • Béla Bartók International Congress (March 2000, Austin Texas)
  • The Hungarian Quarterly (1995)
  • Charles Hollister's Bartok page
  • The Classical Music Pages - Biography
  • Picture Gallery

  • Béla Bartók
  • Bela Bartok (1881-1945) by Evan Denton
  • BÉLA BARTÓK
  • Bela Bartok: his life, times, and music
  • "Formal Considerations in Bela Bartok's Fourth String Quartet", by Michael Ladd
  • Annotatied bibliography of 15 articles and monographs on Bartok
 By Bartok
  • Bela Bartok, Hungarian Folk Music (OUP,1931) (AMS Press,reprint 1981, ISBN 0404166008)

  • Bence Szabolcsi (ed), Bela Bartok: Weg und Werk, Schriften und Briefe (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verl., 1972, ISBN 3761802447)
      Includes Ernö Lendvai's incredible essay (1953) about Bartok's use of the Golden Section and Fibonacci numbers in constructing his works [more in Lendvai and Solomon below], also wonderful letters by Bartok.
About Bartok
  • Halsey Stevens, The Life and Music of Bela Bartok (1953)
      Outstanding analyses of the individual works.
  • Erno Lendvai, Bela Bartok: An Analysis of His Music (1971)
      Outstanding analyses of the individual works.
  • Larry J. Solomon, Symmetry as a Compositional Determinant (Ph.D. dissertation, 1973)
      In the spirit of Lendvai.   Chapter VII analyzes Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta. (Webpage)
Music of Bartok & Friends   
Bartok Mikro. #140 1939
Debussy plp 3 1895?
Bartok Mikro. #149 1939
Webern Aufblick 1903
Bartok Mikro. #113 1939
Hindemith Ragtime 1921
Bartok Mikro. #124 1939
Stravinsky Piano Rag Music 1919
Bartok Mikro. #145 1939
Josquin Despres - - - - 1515?
Bartok Mikro. #125 1939
J.S.Bach WTC I, 24f 1722
Bartok Mikro. 123, 133, Op. 6/5 1939
Webern Op. 28, II 1938
Stockhausen Star Signs 1974
Bartok Mikro. #133 1939
Schoenberg Op. 33a 1928
Bartok Mikro. #148 1939
Stravinsky Dance Concertantes 1933?
Bartok Piano Sonata, 3 1926
 
Hilbert Tu - Resume 		analysis (Solomon) of "Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, I" -->
analysis (Reynolds) of "Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, I" -->
listen to "Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, II" -->
listen to "Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, IV" -->

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