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This comprehensive, accessible guide to Bartok and his music contains up-to-date research by a new generation of Bartok scholars. Part I sets the cultural, social and political background in Hungary at the beginning of the twentieth century, and considers Bartok's research into folk music. Part II surveys his compositional output in all genres, relating changes in style to broad aesthetic issues, his folk music studies, and his activities as a pianist, music editor and teacher. The final part considers various aspects of reception and the variety of responses to Bartok's music in Europe and...

Research in the area of recorded music is becoming increasingly diverse. Contributions from a variety of fields, including music performance, composition and production, cultural studies and philosophy, are drawn together here, for the contrasting perspectives they bring to a range of music genres. Discourses in jazz, ethnomusicology and popular music whose histories and practices have evolved principally from recordings are presented alongside those of Western classical music, where analysis of recordings is a relatively recent development. Different methodologies have evolved in each of...