The investigation of musical folklore. Hungarian folk music ; What is folk music? ; Why and how do we collect folk music? ; Folk song research and nationalism ; Race purity in music ; Folk song research in eastern Europe -- National folk music. On American and British folk music material ; At the congress for Arab music-Cairo ; The so-called Bulgarian rhythm ; The melodies of Hungarian soldiers' songs ; Hungarian folk music ; Hungarian peasant music ; The folk music dialect of the Hunedoara Rumanians ; Rumanian folk music ; Slovak folk music ; Slovak peasant music ; Folk song collecting in Turkey ; The Parry collection of Yugoslav folk music -- Comparative music folklore. Comparative music folklore ; Music folklore ; Music folklore research in Hungary ; Some problems of folk music research in east Europe -- Book reviews and polemics. Observations on Rumanian folk music ; Reply to Jenő Hubay ; He who knows no Arabic ; Gipsy music or Hungarian music? ; Béla Bartók replies to Percy Grainger ; Letters to the Kisfaludy society ; Answers to the Petranu attack -- Musical instruments. The folklore of instruments and their music in eastern Europe ; The performance of works written for the clavecin ; Hungarian art-instruments ; About the 'piano' problem ; Mechanical music -- The relation between folk music and art music. On Hungarian music ; Hungarian peasant music ; The influence of folk music on the art music of today ; The relation of folk song to the development of the art music of our time ; The folk songs of Hungary ; The influence of peasant music on modern music ; On the significance of folk music ; The relation between contemporary Hungarian art music and folk music ; Harvard lectures ; Hungarian music -- The life and music of Béla Bartók. Kossuth : symphonic poem ; Rhapsody for piano and orchestra ; About The wooden prince ; On Duke Bluebeard's castle ; Autobiography ; Structure of the Fourth string quartet ; Analysis for the Fifth string quartet ; Structure of Music for string instruments ; About the Sonata for two pianos and percussion ; Analysis of the Second concerto for piano and orchestra ; Preface to Mikrokosmos ; Contemporary music in piano teaching ; Explanation to Concerto for orchestra ; Introduction to Béla Bartók Masterpieces for the piano ; My activities during the war -- On music and musicians. Strauss : Sinfonia domestica ; Strauss : Elektra ; Preface and notes to Bach's Well-tempered clavier ; A Delius première in Vienna ; Liszt's music and today's public ; The problem of the new music ; Post-war musical life in Budapest to February, 1920 ; Musical events in Budapest, March-May, 1920 ; Arnold Schoenberg's music in Hungary ; Zoltán Kodály ; Musical events in Budapest : October 1920 to February 1921 ; On modern music in Hungary ; Musical events in Budapest, March-June, 1921 ; Two unpublished Liszt letters to Mosonyi ; Introduction to Masterworks of piano literature ; About István Thomán ; About Béla Bartók's Russian tour ; Editor's note to XVIIth and XVIIIth century Italian cembalo and organ music ; Draft resolution ; Motion in the committee of intellectual cooperation of the League of Nations ; Liszt problems ; On music education for the Turkish people ; Béla Bartók's opinion on the technical, aesthetic, and spiritual orientation of contemporary music ; The influence of Debussy and Ravel in Hungary ; Bence Szabolcsi ; To Sir Henry Wood ; Some linguistic observations.
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