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Chants Populaires Hongrois

By: Béla Bartók,Benjamin Suchoff

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Authoritative edition of early piano works, based on the composer's corrections from his own memorabilia and original editions. Includes an Introduction, translations of folk-song text, and commentary.

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0486241084

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9780486241081

Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Genesis, Pedagogy, and Style

By: Benjamin Suchoff

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Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Genesis, Pedagogy, and Style

By: Benjamin Suchoff

Now available in paperback! Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos is a collection of 153 pieces for piano designed by the composer as a series graded according to difficulty. The pieces were written between 1926 and 1939, and have become by far the best-known series of teaching pieces by a major composer in the twentieth century. This in-depth study investigates Bartók's Mikrokosmos from three main viewpoints: the genesis of the pieces, their pedagogical value, and their stylistic qualities. The book is intended for piano teachers, students, and performers as well as anyone interested in Bartók's life and work as pianist, educator, and composer. Cloth originally published in 2002 under ISBN 0-8108-4427-3.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461656729

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9781461656722

Béla Bartók

A Celebration

By: Benjamin Suchoff

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Béla Bartók

A Celebration

By: Benjamin Suchoff

With a narrative supported by a substantial number of musical examples and references, Bela Bartok: A Celebration is essential for music teachers and students. Theorists, ethnomusicologists, and musicians will find this an indispensable resource for future research and for understanding Bartok's compositional processes and methodology."--BOOK JACKET.

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0810849585

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9780810849587

Metamorphosis in Music

The Compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s

By: Benjamin R. Levy

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Metamorphosis in Music

The Compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s

By: Benjamin R. Levy

Metamorphosis in Music examines the evolution of compositional technique in Ligeti's works of the 1950s and 1960s. Through careful analysis of sketches, drafts, and finished scores, it reveals complex influences on the composer's creative process as he moved from the folk-inspired world of Bartók to the forefront of the avant-garde.

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Oxford University Press

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0199381992

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9780199381999

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature

Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity

By: Benjamin Schreier

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The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature

Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity

By: Benjamin Schreier

Benjamin Schreier argues that Jewish American literature's dominant cliché of "breakthrough"—that is, the irruption into the heart of the American cultural scene during the 1950s of Jewish American writers like Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley—must also be seen as the critically originary moment of Jewish American literary study. According to Schreier, this is the primal scene of the Jewish American literary field, the point that the field cannot avoid repeating and replaying in instantiating itself as the more or less formalized academic study of Jewish American literature. More than sixty years later, the field's legibility, the very condition of its possibility, remains overwhelmingly grounded in a reliance on this single ethnological narrative. In a polemic against what he sees as the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Schreier interrogates a series of professionally powerful assumptions about Jewish American literary history—how they came into being and how they hardened into cliché. He offers a critical genealogy of breakthrough and other narratives through which Jewish Studies has asserted its compelling self-evidence, not simply under the banner of the historical realities Jewish Studies claims to represent but more fundamentally for the intellectual and institutional structures through which it produces these representations. He shows how a historicist scholarly narrative quickly consolidated and became hegemonic, in part because of its double articulation of a particular American subject and of a transnational historiography that categorically identified that subject as Jewish. The ethnological grounding of the Jewish American literary field is no longer tenable, Schreier asserts, in an argument with broad implications for the reconceptualization of Jewish and other identity-based ethnic studies.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812297563

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9780812297560

Béla Bartók

A Celebration

By: Benjamin Suchoff

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A Celebration

By: Benjamin Suchoff

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The Impossible Jew

Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History

By: Benjamin Schreier

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The Impossible Jew

Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History

By: Benjamin Schreier

Examines the works of key Jewish American authors to explore how the concept of identity is put to work by identity-based literary study.

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NYU Press

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1479895849

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9781479895847

Béla Bartók

Life and Work

By: Benjamin Suchoff

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Béla Bartók

Life and Work

By: Benjamin Suchoff

Overview: This compilation of essays, lectures, and scholarly papers on Bartok studies from 1953 to the present includes insights obtained by the author over a half-century career as a Bartok specialist. Divided into three parts, chapters examine Bartok as a multifaceted music figure: composer, folklorist, pianist, and teacher. As composer, it includes program notes, an introduction to his principles of composition, and theoretic-analytical discussion of selected works, including Mikrokosmos. As folklorist, it examines the outcome of Bartok's fieldwork, methodology, and findings in East European, Arabic, and Turkist autochthonous folk music materials. Bartok's American years are also discussed. The narrative is supported by a substantial number of musical examples and references.

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0810840766

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9780810840768

Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Genesis, Pedagogy, and Style

By: Benjamin Suchoff

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Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Genesis, Pedagogy, and Style

By: Benjamin Suchoff

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1461656729

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Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy

By: Benjamin Balint

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Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy

By: Benjamin Balint

Winner of the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature "Dramatic and illuminating…[R]aises momentous questions about nationality, religion, literature, and even the Holocaust." —Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka’s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted his life to championing Kafka’s work, rescuing his legacy from both obscurity and physical destruction. Nearly a century later, an international legal battle erupted to determine which country could claim ownership: the Jewish state, where Kafka dreamed of living, or Germany, where Kafka’s three sisters perished in the Holocaust? Benjamin Balint offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts—brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political—that determined the fate of Kafka’s manuscripts.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324001321

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Thinking in Public

Strauss, Levinas, Arendt

By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

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Thinking in Public

Strauss, Levinas, Arendt

By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Thinking in Public examines the ambivalence that public political life and the figure of the intellectual provoked in the generation of European Jewish thinkers born around 1900. By comparing Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Leo Strauss, Wurgaft offers a new perspective on the relationship between philosophers and politics.

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0812247841

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Bartók Perspectives

Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist

By: Elliott Antokoletz,Victoria Fischer,Benjamin Suchoff

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Bartók Perspectives

Man, Composer, and Ethnomusicologist

By: Elliott Antokoletz,Victoria Fischer,Benjamin Suchoff

In profound ways, music in the twentieth century reflects the influence of Béla Bartók. His compositions remain at the heart of the modern repertoire, and his scholarly writings on music and his studies of folk music continue to inspire new generations of scholars and musicians. Bartók Perspectives seeks to paint a complete portrait of this complex figure, presenting essays from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines. The book collects new work by leading scholars and important new voices on Bartók. While each essay can be read independently, together they provide a coherent view of Bartók's life and work. The book includes integrative theoretic-analytical approaches to Bartók's musical language and studies of his system of composition from its early stages to maturity. It also includes explorations of Bartók's folk-music materials in connection with his fieldwork, transcription techniques, classification methodology, and compositional influences. Many of the chapters examine the broad historical, philosophical, and cultural questions intimately linked to Bartók's work. Anyone with an interest in Bartók or in serious music in the twentieth century will find Bartók Perspectives an invaluable resource and guide.

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Oxford University Press

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019977112X

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9780199771127

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Chants Populaires Hongrois

Chants Populaires Hongrois

Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók

Metamorphosis in Music

Metamorphosis in Music

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature

Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók

The Impossible Jew

The Impossible Jew

Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók

Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Bartók's Mikrokosmos

Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy

Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy

Thinking in Public

Thinking in Public

Bartók Perspectives

Bartók Perspectives

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