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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813891403321

Autore

Hooker Lynn M

Titolo

Redefining Hungarian music from Liszt to BartoĢk / / Lynn M. Hooker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-990885-0

1-299-95652-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

780.9439

Soggetti

Music - Hungary - History and criticism

Nationalism in music

Hungary Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rhapsody on Hungarian themes : the development of Hungarian art and music in historical context from the reform era to World War I -- The Liszt centennial and Liszt's legacy in Hungarian musical life -- From gypsies to peasants : race, nation, and modernity -- Writing Hungarian music : genre, motive, spirit -- Cosmopolitan nationalist modernism : promoting and composing modern Hungarian music.

Sommario/riassunto

Some of the most popular works of 19th-century music were labelled either 'Hungarian' or 'Gypsy' in style, including many of the best-known and least-respected of Liszt's compositions. In the early 20th century, Bela Bartok and his colleagues questioned not only the Hungarianness but also the good taste of that style. Bartok argued that it should be discarded in favour of a national style based in the 'genuine' folk music of the rural peasantry.