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Homage to Béla Bartók

1981; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE; Issue: 136 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0040298200031715

1980-542X

Andrzej Panufnik, Alberto Ginastera, Iannis Xenakis,

Musicology and Musical Analysis

For me personally, Béla Bartók is the greatest composer of the first half of this century. I think that none of his contemporaries has so creatively enriched the three basic elements of music: harmony, melody, and rhythm, all three in balance, without neglect of any. And his range of expression extends all the way from gentle lyricism to violent, atavistic outbursts.