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| Béla Bartók | ||
| This site offers a good biography, picture gallery, and a list of Bartók's works. ( http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/bartok.html ) | ||
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| Boosey & Hawkes: Béla Bartók | ||
| This site by the music publishers Boosey & Hawkes offers a brief biography, a discography, and many sound files of the compositions of Béla Bartók. ( http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=2694 ) | ||
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| Concerto for Orchestra | ||
| This site chronicles the period when Bartók composed this great work for orchestra after fleeing to the United States and while in poor health. ( http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/bartok.html ) | ||
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| BBC Profiles: Béla Bartók | ||
| This BBC site offers a biography, list of compositions, and sound files from the Concerto forOrchestra and the String Quartet no. 4 along with links to broadcasts of Bartók's music. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/bartok.shtml ) | ||
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| History of Sound Recording Technology | ||
| This site chronicles the history of sound recording and the development of devices by Thomas Edison and others that allowed Bartók and other researchers to document folk songs in eastern Europe. ( http://www.recording-history.org/HTML/musictech1.htm ) | ||
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| Béla Bartók: The First Serious Folklorist | ||
| This site offers a good description of Hungarian folk music styles as found in the music of Béla Bartók. ( http://www.azstarnet.com/public/packages/reelbook/153-3986.htm ) | ||
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| Hungarian History: Folk Music | ||
| This site offers a nice history of Hungarian folk music as well as a wealth of information on the history and development of the region that figures so prominently in the music of Bartók and Kodály. ( http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/timeless/chapter03.htm ) | ||
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| Zoltán Kodály | ||
| This site offers a biography of Zoltán Kodály as well as lists of works and recordings. ( http://humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=c&a=b&ID=120 ) | ||
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| Time in Music | ||
| This valuable site offers an examination of the time element in a variety of compositions by Bach, Stravinsky, Schubert, and Bartók, with wonderful sound files for illustration. ( http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11434/latest/ ) | ||
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