Author: László Somfai
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520914619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music. For Bèla Bartók, composition often began with improvisation at the piano. Làszló Somfai maintains that Bartók composed without preconceived musical theories and refused to teach composition precisely for this reason. He was not an analytical composer but a musical creator for whom intuition played a central role. These conclusions are the result of Somfai's three decades of work with Bartók's oeuvre; of careful analysis of some 3,600 pages of sketches, drafts, and autograph manuscripts; and of the study of documents reflecting the development of Bartók's compositions. Included as well are corrections preserved only on recordings of Bartók's performances of his own works. Somfai also provides the first comprehensive catalog of every known work of Bartók, published and unpublished, and of all extant draft, sketch, and preparatory material. His book will be basic to all future scholarly work on Bartók and will assist performers in clarifying the problems of Bartók notation. Moreover, it will be a model for future work on other major composers.
Bela Bartok
Author: László Somfai
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520914619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music. For Bèla Bartók, composition often began with improvisation at the piano. Làszló Somfai maintains that Bartók composed without preconceived musical theories and refused to teach composition precisely for this reason. He was not an analytical composer but a musical creator for whom intuition played a central role. These conclusions are the result of Somfai's three decades of work with Bartók's oeuvre; of careful analysis of some 3,600 pages of sketches, drafts, and autograph manuscripts; and of the study of documents reflecting the development of Bartók's compositions. Included as well are corrections preserved only on recordings of Bartók's performances of his own works. Somfai also provides the first comprehensive catalog of every known work of Bartók, published and unpublished, and of all extant draft, sketch, and preparatory material. His book will be basic to all future scholarly work on Bartók and will assist performers in clarifying the problems of Bartók notation. Moreover, it will be a model for future work on other major composers.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520914619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music. For Bèla Bartók, composition often began with improvisation at the piano. Làszló Somfai maintains that Bartók composed without preconceived musical theories and refused to teach composition precisely for this reason. He was not an analytical composer but a musical creator for whom intuition played a central role. These conclusions are the result of Somfai's three decades of work with Bartók's oeuvre; of careful analysis of some 3,600 pages of sketches, drafts, and autograph manuscripts; and of the study of documents reflecting the development of Bartók's compositions. Included as well are corrections preserved only on recordings of Bartók's performances of his own works. Somfai also provides the first comprehensive catalog of every known work of Bartók, published and unpublished, and of all extant draft, sketch, and preparatory material. His book will be basic to all future scholarly work on Bartók and will assist performers in clarifying the problems of Bartók notation. Moreover, it will be a model for future work on other major composers.
GREYING GRACEFULLY
Author: Dr. Siddhartha Ganguli
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 8184246978
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Our life span has been on the rise over the last two decades still, that has not enabled most of us to grey gracefully. Hardly, a few make a post-retirement plan for old age happiness. This volume is an outcome of several workshops and post-workshop interactions that the author, Dr Siddhartha Ganguli, had recently conducted through his brain-body management organisation Learning Club, deliberating on these aspects of an individual' life.
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 8184246978
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Our life span has been on the rise over the last two decades still, that has not enabled most of us to grey gracefully. Hardly, a few make a post-retirement plan for old age happiness. This volume is an outcome of several workshops and post-workshop interactions that the author, Dr Siddhartha Ganguli, had recently conducted through his brain-body management organisation Learning Club, deliberating on these aspects of an individual' life.
The Camera as Witness
Author: Joy L. K. Pachuau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107073391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The book challenges the stereotypes about and narrates the daily lives of the Mizos through the use of vernacular photography.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107073391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
The book challenges the stereotypes about and narrates the daily lives of the Mizos through the use of vernacular photography.
Manual of Commercial Methods in Clinical Microbiology
Author: Allan L. Truant
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology Press
ISBN: 1555811892
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1557
Book Description
A general resource for all subdisciplines of clinical microbiology to use when evaluating commercial methods, tests, or procedures. • Reviews all the commercially available tests (both manual and automated) in the discipline of clinical microbiology. • Includes a description of the sensitivities, specificities, and predictive values from peer-reviewed sources. • Features separate chapters devoted to molecular microbiology, information management, emerging infectious diseases, and veterinary clinical microbiology.
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology Press
ISBN: 1555811892
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1557
Book Description
A general resource for all subdisciplines of clinical microbiology to use when evaluating commercial methods, tests, or procedures. • Reviews all the commercially available tests (both manual and automated) in the discipline of clinical microbiology. • Includes a description of the sensitivities, specificities, and predictive values from peer-reviewed sources. • Features separate chapters devoted to molecular microbiology, information management, emerging infectious diseases, and veterinary clinical microbiology.
In Search of The Blues (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442983310
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442983310
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Branches & Twigs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Dictionnaire Géographique Et Statistique Sur Un Plan Entièrement Nouveau
Sprichwörter Der Germanischen und Romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend
Author: Freifrau Ida von Reinsberg-Du ringsfeld
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Stochastic Analysis In Mathematical Physics - Proceedings Of A Satellite Conference Of Icm 2006
Author: Gerard Ben Arous
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814471879
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The ideas and principles of stochastic analysis have managed to penetrate into various fields of pure and applied mathematics in the last 15 years; it is particularly true for mathematical physics. This volume provides a wide range of applications of stochastic analysis in fields as varied as statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, Yang-Mills theory and spin-glass theory.The proper concept of stochastic dynamics relevant to each type of application is described in detail here. Altogether, these approaches illustrate the reasons why their dissemination in other fields is likely to accelerate in the years to come./a
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814471879
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The ideas and principles of stochastic analysis have managed to penetrate into various fields of pure and applied mathematics in the last 15 years; it is particularly true for mathematical physics. This volume provides a wide range of applications of stochastic analysis in fields as varied as statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, Yang-Mills theory and spin-glass theory.The proper concept of stochastic dynamics relevant to each type of application is described in detail here. Altogether, these approaches illustrate the reasons why their dissemination in other fields is likely to accelerate in the years to come./a