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BÉLA
BARTÓK
Dance
Suite for Orchestra. Reprint of the Original
Manuscript (Budapest
Historical Museum).
Edited by Ferenc Bónis.
detail of
page
Budapest,
1998. 26 x 34 cm, 2 vols, 66 facs, 48
pp. 3-color halftone of the autograph full
score fair copy, completed Aug. 19, 1923. The work was written on
commission to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest. The composer does
not make use of real
peasant melodies but rather invents folk songs as a unifying device;
the Dance Suite
represents the first time in which this principle was used for an
entire symphonic cycle. The
commentary volume explores the cultural millieu of Budapest in the
twenties, the work’s
genesis, compositional sources, and reproduces 7 B/W plates of other
autograph material.
Bound in black cloth with gold lettering (commentary booklet in
wrappers). Colorful portfolio
with pasted title. $118
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