"Bela Bartok is the most recorded of all modern composers, and yet his music is not "easy" to listen to: it is full of fragmentary motifs, complicated rhythms, and exotic harmonies, and permeated by the spirit of the Eastern European peasant music Bartok studied as an ethnomusicologist. In providing a thorough historical survey of the musical language and sources of the Concerto for Orchestra, this book also serves as an introduction to Bartok and his musical world, briefly discussing the composer's entire oeuvre and its influence on modern music. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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