Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Out of Hungary: Bartok, Modernism, and the Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Music
Why Is a Bartok Thematic Catalog Sorely Needed?
The Gallows and the Altar: Poetic Criticism and Critical Poetry about Bartok in Hungary
Bartok's Reception in America, 1940-1945
Bluebeard as Theater: The Influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard Drama
The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok
Bartok and Stravinsky: Respect, Competition, Influence, and the Hungarian Reaction to Modernism in the 1920s
Travel Reports from Three Continents: A Selection of Letters from Bela Bartok
Bela Bartok: An Interview by Dezso Kosztolanyi
A Conversation with Bela Bartok
Recollections of Bela Bartok
A Change in Style
Bartok's Third String Quartet
Bartok's Foreign Tour
Two Bartok Obituaries
A Selection of Poems Inspired by Bela Bartok
Index of Names and Compositions
List of Contributors