Book Review
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kenjariBela Bartok
by Kenneth Chalmers
This biography is part of the Phaidon series of books about 20th century composers. Chalmers provides a solid, engaging overview of Bartok's life and work. While this book does not go into technical detail or provide extensive analysis of Bartok's music, it does provide a good grounding in Bartok's primary compositional materials and methods, as well a sense of his development. Chalmers also gives a lot of information about Bartok's ethnomusicological activities. This book filled in the gaps in my knowledge of Bartok and has given me a good foundation from which read more analytical and probing works on Bartok and his music.
by Kenneth Chalmers
This biography is part of the Phaidon series of books about 20th century composers. Chalmers provides a solid, engaging overview of Bartok's life and work. While this book does not go into technical detail or provide extensive analysis of Bartok's music, it does provide a good grounding in Bartok's primary compositional materials and methods, as well a sense of his development. Chalmers also gives a lot of information about Bartok's ethnomusicological activities. This book filled in the gaps in my knowledge of Bartok and has given me a good foundation from which read more analytical and probing works on Bartok and his music.
