Bela Bart¢k Studies in Ethnomusicology

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Bela Bart¢k Studies in Ethnomusicology is written by Bäla Bart¢k and published by U of Nebraska Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0803242476 (ISBN 10) and 9780803242470 (ISBN 13).

Composer, folklorist, and performer Béla Bartók (1881–1945) is internationally renowned as one of the most important and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Throughout his life he wrote lectures and essays that dealt with virtually every aspect of East European folk music. Many of those essays, previously scattered in specialist journals in four different languages, are collected here for the first time. All are concerned with that branch of musicology within which Bartók was most influential, and for which he is best known: research into folk music, or ethnomusicology. The volume includes a preface by editor Benjamin Suchoff, a leading expert on Bartók’s music and writings. Suchoff examines Bartók’s developing views on the folk-music traditions of Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Arab world.