The music of Béla Bartók : a study of tonality and progression in twentieth-century music /
The basic principles of progression and the means by which tonality is established in Bartók's music remain problematical to many theorists. The author here demonstrates that the remarkable continuity of style in Bartók's evolution is founded upon an all-encompassing system of pitch rela...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
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Table of Contents:
- The musical language of Bartók : historical backgrounds. Folk- and art-music sources ; Orientation toward French, Russian, and Folk-music sources : nonfunctional bases in pentatonic, modal, and whole-tone constructions ; Use of symmetrical pitch collections by Russian, French, and Hungarian composers ; Russian nationalists : symmetrical properties of the dominant-ninth chord ; Russian nationalists, Debussy, and Stravinsky : symmetrical properties of nontraditional as well as traditional (pentatonic and modal) pitch constructions ; Russian nationalists, Scriabin, and Kodaly : symmetrical partitions of the octatonic scale ; Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germanic influences : symmetrical organization of chromatically related keys ; The Schoenberg school : symmetrical formations as the basis of progression in free-atonal compositions ; Berg and Webern : total systematization of the concepts of the interval cycle and inversional symmetry in dodecaphonic serial compositions
- Harmonization of authentic folk tunes
- Symmetrical transformation of the folk modes
- Basic principles of symmetrical pitch construction
- Construction, development, and interaction of intervallic cells
- Tonal centricity based on axes of symmetry
- Interaction of diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone formations
- Generation of interval cycles.