Piano Literature 2
Professor Korevaar


Bartók  (and Dohnányi)
Burge: 73-84; read Korevaar, "Dohnanyi's Six Concert Etudes, op. 28: context and content" in Grymes, Perspectives on Ernst von Dohnanyi.  (on reserve ML401.D693 P47 2005)

Class 1:
Listen to:

Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960)

          Concert Etudes, op. 28, no. 3, no. 6 (1916)
          Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song, op. 29 (1916)

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
          from 14 Bagatelles, op. 6 (1908), nos. 1-3.
           3 Etudes, op. 18 (1918)
          Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, op. 20 (1920)

Compare the Dohnanyi Etudes to the Bartok Etudes. Compare the Dohnanyi Variations to the Bartok Improvisations. How does Bartok incorporate Hungarian elements in his music? How does his method/stylistic development differ from Dohnanyi's? In bald terms, how would characterize their respective styles in this period (before 1921)?

Class 2:
Part II: Listen to Bartok:

Sonata (1926)
Out of Doors (1926)
How does this music relate to/derive from the music looked at last class (in his Hungarian period, if you will)?
How is Bartók affected by the impulse toward neoclassicism?
How does Bartók balance the modernist and folklorist tendencies in his work?