Zoltán Kodály : a Hungarian musician

Ernest Benn

1964

231 pages

Foreword / Zoltán Kodály -- Preface -- The historical background -- Kodály's social and musical origins -- Looking for folk-songs, and collaboration with Bartók -- The young composer -- Trial by the establishment -- Psalmus Hungaricus -- New ideals -- The cause of choral music -- Scholarship and art -- Renaissance models -- Reconstruction in Hungary -- Realisation of scientific aims -- An international figure -- The symphony -- The composer -- Influence of Kodály, and trends in contemporary Hungarian music -- The master -- Appendix I: Notes for an address (July, 1963) ; II: Zoltán Kodály / by M.D. Calvocoressi (April 1922) -- Bibliography -- Index of works and recordings -- General index

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