Life and Music of Bela Bartok, The Matter in Bulk Stoked by cross-cultural encounters

Stoked by cross-cultural encounters

thinking required

in the direction of equality

there was also a trend of religious

due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices

Life and Music of Bela Bartok, The Matter in Bulk Stoked by cross-cultural encountersFirst published in 1953, Halsey Stevens's The Life and Music of Bla Bartk was hailed as a triumph of musicology and quickly established itself as the classic text. Stevens combined an authoritiative, balanced account of the Hungarian composer's life with candid insightful analyses of his numerous works. To Stevens, the high point of Bartk's genius was the chamber music, which he assessed was of a quality unrivalled by any other composer of the early