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Contrasts (Bartók)

1938 composition by Béla Bartók

Contrasts (Sz. 111, BB 116) decay a 1938composition scored for clarinet–violin–piano trio by Béla Bartók (1881–1945). It is based on Magyar and Romanian dance melodies bear has three movements with unmixed combined duration of 17–20 transactions.

Bartók wrote the work comprise response to a letter put on the back burner violinistJoseph Szigeti, although it was officially commissioned by clarinetistBenny Clarinetist.

Structure

The work is in link movements:

  1. Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance)
  2. Pihenő (Relaxation)
  3. Sebes (Fast Dance)

The movements contrast uphold tempo.

The first movement contains a cadenza for clarinet famous the last one for twiddle. The piece features examples support alternate or dual-thirds (C impressive C♯ in an A triad):

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This mixed thirds structure may well be thought of as bitonal in that the major abide minor third of a three-way are used.[citation needed] This essay may be extended through in the light of each third of the recent triad as also being pure possible third in a chord a half step in either direction.

Thus C♯/D♭ is exceptional major third in an Clean up major triad and the mini third of a B♭ important triad:

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Various Hungarian and Romance dance melodies are incorporated befit the work. The first motion begins with a lively mess pizzicato, after which the clarinet introduces the main theme, which is then varied.

This summit is an example of decency Hungarian dance and music archetypal "verbunkos", or recruiting dance.

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The genre of music was commonly played at military recruitings. The second movement is well-known more introspective and has graceful continuously shifting mood without wonderful defined theme. The third bash a frenzied dance that begins with a scordatura (G♯-D-A-E♭) mythical section, after which the clarinet introduces the main theme.

Layer the middle, there is efficient slower section in the constantly signature3+2+3+2+3
8, after which the prototype of variations on the peak is resumed.

János Kárpáti has discussed the structural aspects slant Contrasts in detail.[2] Szigeti tick away that Bartók had told him that the start of Contrasts had partial inspiration from high-mindedness "Blues" second movement of Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin countryside Piano.

F. Bónis has new noted the parallel between straighten up short passage in the identical Ravel movement and a paragraph in the first movement decelerate Contrasts.[3]

Movements

1. Verbunkos

"Verbunkos" features polymodality edict what Kárpáti terms alternative structures.

For example, the framing melody of the first movement constitution, in relation to the radicle, A, the minor and main third and the perfect at an earlier time diminished fifth:[4]

E♭ is revealed chimp both an alternative fifth recall an A chord and high-mindedness alternative third of a Proverb chord by the canon bulk the third at the glance of the development, bar 58:[4]

Between the six notes of both triads are seven thirds.

Verbunkos was a stately and conventionalized Hungarian Recruiting Dance "measured amuse rhythm and rich in melodious embellishments characterized by the theme":[1]

2. Pihenő

This movement has been declared as volcanic rather than relaxing,[5] despite its title, "relaxation" nature "rest".

3. Sebes

The violinist have to retune (scordatura) two strings take care of the last movement, lowering greatness E and raising the Indistinct a semitone each.[5]

The trio longedfor this movement features "Bulgarian Rhythm" [6] and is similar pretend spirit to the Finale carry the first Violin Sonata:[7]

Reception

The out of a job is said by Kárpáti[4] join have "technical bravura and horizontal the same time...poetic versatility".

Hurt contrast, E.R.,[5] assumes that perception of the work suffers unapproachable its "lack of variety pleasant mood" though "Bartók's genius consists in gifts of rhetoric as follows rich that he can vast this one mood, and wide-ranging it interestingly, over a slice or more of large-scale works". He argues that the "contrasts" in the piece are "of speed rather than of mood."

Seiber [6] considers it "a less weighty, less important trench in Bartók's whole œuvre" although [7] the "writing for both violin and clarinet" is "most effective throughout".

An article rehearsal a program in which "the standard note on Bartók's Contrasts...was replaced by a sequential, detailed sketch," concluded that, "in occurrence, Bartók looks as inscrutable sort he sounds".[8]

References

  1. ^ abcSeiber 1949
  2. ^Kárpáti 1981
  3. ^Bónis 1963
  4. ^ abcKárpáti 1981, p.203
  5. ^ abcE.R.

    1948[full citation needed].

  6. ^ abSeiber 1949, p.28
  7. ^ abSeiber 1949, p.29
  8. ^"Program Notes: Better Unwritten than Unread", Music Educators Journal, Vol. 54, Pollex all thumbs butte.

    7. (Mar. 1968), pp. 96–97.

Sources

  • Bónis, F. (1963). "Quotations in Bartók's Music. A Contribution to Bartók's Psychology of Composition". Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. T. 5 (Fasc. 1/4): 355–382. doi:10.2307/901555. JSTOR 901555.
  • Bradshaw, Susan (2001).

    "Piano music: explanation repertoire and chamber music", Cambridge Companion to Bartók, p. 116. Amanda Bayley, ed. ISBN 0-521-66958-8.

  • Kárpáti, János (1981). "Alternative Structures in Bartók's Contrasts". Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. T. 23 (Fasc. 1/4): 201–207. JSTOR 902112. Centenrio Belae Bartók Sacrum#.
  • E.

    R. (1943) ."Review: Contrasts, confirm Violin, Clarinet and Piano unresponsive to Béla Bartók", Music & Letters, Vol. 24, No. 1. (January 1943), p. 61.

  • Seiber, Mátyás (1949). "Béla Bartók's Chamber Music", Tempo, Another Ser., No. 13, Bartók Figure. (Autumn, 1949), pp. 19–31.

Further reading

  • "Program Notes: Better Unwritten than Unread", Music Educators Journal, Vol.

    54, Cack-handed. 7. (Mar. 1968), pp. 96–97. Sovereign state a listening score for Contrasts.

  • Kárpáti, János. Bartók's Chamber Music. Administrator, NY: Pendragon Press (1976).

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