Cantata profana : Bartók's sacred bridge /
"Béla Bartók called Cantata profana, composed in 1930 and premièred in London in 1934, his credo. The mystical story of the hunter's nine sons who turn into stags never to return home was close to the composer's heart, he refers to it when writing an overview of Romanian folklore in 1...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Studies in musical genesis, structure, and interpretation.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Béla Bartók called Cantata profana, composed in 1930 and premièred in London in 1934, his credo. The mystical story of the hunter's nine sons who turn into stags never to return home was close to the composer's heart, he refers to it when writing an overview of Romanian folklore in 1933 and it even seems to prophecy his own later determination to go into voluntary exile during the Second World War. East European folk music research, including Slovak and Romanian as well as Hungarian, lay in the centre of Bartók's endeavours resulting in complex scholarly publications and original musical compositions. The choice of a Romanian winter solstice ceremonial text as libretto for Cantata profana which combines Bartók's folklorism with a markedly "neoclassical" allusion to J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion, cannot be interpreted without discussing the importance of folk song collection for Bartók or the severe attacks he repeatedly had to face in connection with his work on Romanian folklore"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190083267 0190083263 |