The Cambridge Companion to Bart—k

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Edited by Amanda Bayley

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published March 2001, 285 pages, paper

ISBN 0521669588

This guide to Bartók and his music contains up-to-date research by a new generation of Bartók scholars. Part I sets the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartók's research into folk music. Part II surveys his compositional output in all genres, relating changes in style to broad aesthetic issues, his folk music studies, and his activities as a pianist, music editor and teacher. The final part considers various aspects of reception and the variety of responses to Bartók's music in Europe and the United States.

Contributors: Amanda Bayley, Lynn Hooker, Stephen Erdely, David Cooper, Carl Leafstedt, Rachel Beckles Willson, Victoria Fischer, Susan Bradshaw, Nicola Losseff, Peter Laki, David E. Schneider, Malcolm Gilles, Danielle Fosler-Lussire, Ivan F. Waldbauer, Vera Lampert