Bartok

[ US /ˈbɑɹtək/ ]
NOUN
  1. Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945)
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How To Use Bartok In A Sentence

  • The Arcanto's formidable strengths shone to best advantage, though, in Bela Bartók's Quartet No. 5, which closed the program. Music review of the Arcanto Quartet at the Library of Congress
  • A third, subordinate motif is stated in bare octaves answered by bird-like pianissimo acciaccaturas in the treble (precursors of Bartók's nature sounds, perhaps?
  • A CD of selections from Bartok's oeuvre performed by the author is attached within the back cover.
  • Performed to a collage of composers ranging from Kurt Weill to Bela Bartok, Sorrow's Sister reveals women bent on survival, even finding a few laughs in the worst of times.
  • Then there's Bartok's stretched tonality, the expressive dissonances that result only partly from his use of scales and modes from eastern European folk music, the downright virtuosity of the writing, especially for piano.
  • Bartok: Roumanian Folk Dances They have it spelled "Roumanian" on the track listing My Evening with Brandon Sanderson
  • Not only can a listener trace the progress of Bartók's musical style over the course of the six quartets, but you get a chance to hear some of the best music the 20th century had to offer.
  • The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent.
  • Released on two LPs, these discs were instant classics, establishing Bartok at the heart of concerto repertoire.
  • In 1912 Bartók noted that he had given nearly 1000 phonographic cylinders to the Ethnographic Museum in Budapest.
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