Biro, Daniel Peter - The String Quartets of Bela Bartok

At the center of Bartok's oeuvre are his string quartets, which are generally acknowledged as some of the most significant pieces of 20th century chamber music. The String Quartets of Bela Bartok examines these remarkable works from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

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CONTENTS

Contributors
Intoduction - Daniel Peter Biro and Harald Krebs
Chapter 1 - Paul Wilson - Sonata Form in the First Movement of Bartok's Fourth String Quartet
Chapter 2 - Jonathan Bernard - Bartok and Traditional Form Description: Some Issues Arising from the Middle and Late String Quartets
Chapter 3 - Jee Yeon Ryu - The Structural Role of Formal Contrast in Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 101 and Bartok's Third String Quartet
Chapter 4 - Harald Krebs - In Beethoven's Footsteps: Metrical Dissonance in Bartok's String Quartets
Chapter 5 - John Roeder - Bartok's Grooves: Metrical Processes in the Fourth String Quartet
Chapter 6 - Daphne Leong - Between Sound and Structure: Folk Rhythm at the Center of Bartok's Fifth String Quartet
Chapter 7 - Elliott Antokoletz - The Romanian 'Long Song' as Structural Convergent Point for the Chiasmal Harmonic Design in Bartok's Fourth String Quartet
Chapter 8 - William Benjamin - The Use of Tonal Concepts and their Attendant Modes of Continuity in the Inner Hearing of Bartok's String Quartets
Chapter 9 - Edward Gollin - Aggregate Structure and Cyclic Design at the Conclusion of Bartok's Second String Quartet
Chapter 10 - Charles Morrison - The Realization(s) of Functional Qualities in Bartok's Second String Quartet
Chapter 11 - Judit Frigyesi - How Barbaric is Bartok's forte? - About the Performance of Bartok's Fast Movements for Piano and Strings, with Emphasis on the First Movement of the Fifth String Quartet
Chapter 12 - Martin Iddon - Bartok's Relics: Nostalgia in Gyorgy Ligeti's String Quartet No. 2
Chapter 13 - Daniel Peter Biro - Bartok's Quartets, Folk Music, and the Anxiety of Influence
Chapter 14 - Friedemann Sallis - Recycled Flowers: Quotation, Paraphrase and Allusion in Gyorgy Kurtag's Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky Op. 28 for String Quartet
Epilogue - Daniel Peter Biro and Martin Iddon - Bartok's Present
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