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Author: Halsey Stevens (late Professor Emeritus, late Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California) ,
Malcolm Gillies (Professor, Faculty of Music, Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Queensland, Australia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.511kg
ISBN: 9780198163497
ISBN 10: 0198163495
Pages: 382
Publication Date: 21 January 1993
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
<br>Praise for past editions A reliable, sympathetic, informative, even rich book that fills a need. It should be in every self-respecting general library and in the hands of anyone who wants an understanding guide to the immense riches of Bart?k's works. --Notes<p><br> Does credit to American musical scholarship. --Aaron Copland, New York Times<p><br> Gilles's discretion is appreciated not only because the book is a lucid exposition of a notoriously complicated subject but also because it is one of the great classics of modernist biography and thus an important document in its own right. Choral Journal<p><br>
Praise for past editions: A reliable, sympathetic, informative, even rich book that fills a need. It should be in every self-respecting general library and in the hands of anyone who wants an understanding guide to the immense riches of Bartok's works. --Notes<br> Does credit to American musical scholarship. --Aaron Copland, New York Times<br> Gilles's discretion is appreciated not only because the book is a lucid exposition of a notoriously complicated subject but also because it is one of the great classics of modernist biography and thus an important document in its own right. Choral Journal<br>
`one significant catalyst ... was surely the appearance in 1953 of the first comprehensive survey of his life and work by the American composer, Halsey Stevens. Stevens's major virtues in conveying his admiration for Bartok are his clarity and concision. ... his biography encompasses all the essentials and is graphic on the last, difficult American years. ... the analytic comments, ... are always apt. Which are just some of the reasons why this third edition, prepared by Malcolm Gillies, remains after 40 years about the best way into a formidable and fascinating output.' Bayan Northcott, BBC Music Magazine
<br>Praise for past editions A reliable, sympathetic, informative, even rich book that fills a need. It should be in every self-respecting general library and in the hands of anyone who wants an understanding guide to the immense riches of Bart k's works. --Notes<p><br> Does credit to American musical scholarship. --Aaron Copland, New York Times<p><br> Gilles's discretion is appreciated not only because the book is a lucid exposition of a notoriously complicated subject but also because it is one of the great classics of modernist biography and thus an important document in its own right. Choral Journal<p><br>
