How To Use Bartok In A Sentence
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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
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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?
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A CD of selections from Bartok's oeuvre performed by the author is attached within the back cover.
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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.
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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.
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Bartok: Roumanian Folk Dances They have it spelled "Roumanian" on the track listing
My Evening with Brandon Sanderson
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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.
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The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent.
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Released on two LPs, these discs were instant classics, establishing Bartok at the heart of concerto repertoire.
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In 1912 Bartók noted that he had given nearly 1000 phonographic cylinders to the Ethnographic Museum in Budapest.
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Any collector who hopes to add the complete Bartók concertos to his/her collection is earnestly recommended to purchase this well filled twofer.
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Much more conventional a string quartet format now, it has half the pulse of Bartók but twice the melody of Tippett.
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He vividly traced Bartók's musical journey from the depths of despair to a reaffirmation of the human spirit!
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Moravec takes the opening of the first in a way that connects with Bartók's piano dances, with shifting accents.
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What is interesting about Mullova here is her opening notes in the Bartók, which have an almost clipped sound.
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The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration.
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This article explores the characters of harmony of Bartok's compositions, and emphasizes on the relationship between the tonality and the application of harmony.
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Last night, Scottish Opera continued its ambitious double bill of 20th century musical drama, Bela Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Arnold Schoenberg's challenging monodrama Erwartung.
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In the same way Bartok used many seconds and sevenths found in monophonic Hungarian folk music, contemporary Korean composers have frequently used seconds and fourths derived from the pentatonic scale in both melody and harmony.
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Bartok was a radical, even in the early piano music he was experimenting with conventional harmonies and tonality.
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Leddy refers to sources as diverse as Bartok, Darwin and Baudrillard, but essentially it's a send-up.
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Or consider the college piano student, carefully groomed to taper each Mozartean phrase just so, and deliver sharp accents in Bartok.
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I mean, I think the way that he said to me is like ` You know, wouldn't it be great if you could syncopate Bartok? '
'American Primitve' Captures Young Performers
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A whirlwind of a third movement, with its Bartók pizzicati, brought something of the sound world of the last movement of the Barber Violin Concerto.
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Husa's balance of austere folk-cultural strains with a modernist aesthetic -- clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, violist Steve Tenenbom and cellist Marcy Rosen gave an authoritative performance -- was deeply influenced by Bartók.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: Central Europe's Underwear Showing
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The Bartók is a showpiece for the Concertbebouw Orchestra.
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I hear in Gerber's music a little bit of Bartók, some Stravinsky, Ravel, Sibelius, and English symphonists as well as movie music, pop jazz, folk song and dance, and even kid song.
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The "Symphony No. 4" or "Symphonie concertante for Piano and Orchestra," depending on how it's billed, is one of the composer's final works and it has the sound of everybody from Carl Nielsen to Bartok in it, but the voice is definitely its own, and the wonderful performance made me want to go to Amoeba Records on a Szymanowski buying spree.
Archive 2008-10-01
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A whirlwind final movement, allegro - andante - vivace molto capriccioso - with something of the feel of Bartók and Prokofiev, ends by quoting material from the earlier movements.
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The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration.
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Moravec takes the opening of the first in a way that connects with Bartók's piano dances, with shifting accents.
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Bartok used many seconds and sevenths found in monophonic Hungarian folk music.
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While immigrants from other regions play some role in audience development, the bulk of the local audience is upwardly mobile and formally educated, but with an education that is not necessarily invested in a particular European canon, for whom Haydn and Bartok are equally new, and whose concert-going loyalties may well include as much pop music as classical.
E pur si muove
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The chordal bitonality is constantly there - one thinks of Bartók and Mikrokosmos - and the dramatic interest (something Martinu is actually strong on) is maintained.
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Although he was composing at the same time as Bartok, Debussy, Ravel and Iyes, he remained true to the romantic tradition and expanded it in his use of long melodic lines, complex tonalities and more pianistic and color effects.
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In vivid contrast, his recent composition "Double Sextet" -- which sets a live ensemble of strings, winds, keyboard and percussion against a digital recording of an identical ensemble in this case, a recording made by the new music group Eighth Blackbird -- let loose an orchestral range of expression tinged with an almost Bartókian angularity in the string writing.
Music review of Bang on a Can All-Stars at Strathmore Hall
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Many other composers have scored it since, including Bartók in his Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta.
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The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent.
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It betrays the vintage of Bartok's quartets no 3 and 4 showing much the same use of one permutating motive governing the total thematic discourse.
