The String Quartets of Béla Bartók

Contributors Intoduction - Dániel Péter Biró and Harald Krebs Chapter 1 - Paul Wilson - "Sonata Form in the First Movement of Bartók's Fourth String Quartet" Chapter 2 - Jonathan Bernard - "Bartók and Traditional Form Description: Some Issues Arising from the Middle and Late String Quartets" Chapter 3 - Jee Yeon Ryu - "The Structural Role of Formal Contrast in Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 101 and Bartók's Third String Quartet" Chapter 4 - Harald Krebs - "In Beethoven's Footsteps: Metrical Dissonance in Bartók's String Quartets" Chapter 5 - John Roeder - "Bartók's Grooves: Metrical Processes in the Fourth String Quartet" Chapter 6 - Daphne Leong - "Between Sound and Structure: Folk Rhythm at the Center of Bartók's Fifth String Quartet" Chapter 7 - Elliott Antokoletz - "The Romanian 'Long Song' as Structural Convergent Point for the Chiasmal Harmonic Design in Bartók's Fourth String Quartet" Chapter 8 - William Benjamin - "The Use of Tonal Concepts and their Attendant Modes of Continuity in the Inner Hearing of Bartók's String Quartets" Chapter 9 - Edward Gollin - "Aggregate Structure and Cyclic Design at the Conclusion of Bartók's Second String Quartet" Chapter 10 - Charles Morrison - "The Realization(s) of Functional Qualities in Bartók's Second String Quartet" Chapter 11 - Judit Frigyesi - "How Barbaric is Bartók's forte? - About the Performance of Bartók's Fast Movements for Piano and Strings, with Emphasis on the First Movement of the Fifth String Quartet" Chapter 12 - Martin Iddon - "Bartók's Relics: Nostalgia in György Ligeti's String Quartet No. 2" Chapter 13 - Dániel Péter Biró - "Bartók's Quartets, Folk Music, and the Anxiety of Influence" Chapter 14 - Friedemann Sallis - "Recycled Flowers: Quotation, Paraphrase and Allusion in György Kurtág's Officium breve in memoriam Andreæ Szervánszky Op. 28 for String Quartet" Epilogue - Dániel Péter Biró and Martin Iddon - "Bartók's Present" Bibliography