Structure in the Fifth Door Scene of Bartók's [i]Duke Bluebeard's Castle[/i]: —An Alternative Viewpoint

01 October 1990 In the preceding paper, Elliott Antokoletz provides a structural analysis of the Fifth Door Scene in Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle. Antokoletz describes the scene's organization as an "overall extended binary form" based on the text's...

Bartók's [i]Bluebeard[/i]: The Sources of Its "Modernism"

01 October 1990 modernistic sources of these operas. 1Certain portions of the historical discussions in this article are derived from Elliott Antokoletz and George Perle, "Erwartung and Bluebeard," program note in Stagebill, for the performance by the New York...

Folk Music and the "Free and Equal Treatment of the Twelve Tones": Aspects of Béla Bartók's Synthetic Methods

01 October 1987 On the other hand, the "framework" for Bartók's developing variations is often defined by symmetrical pitch-cells. Elliott Antokoletz succinctly summarizes the underlying premise of many scholars who have studied these cells: With the free use of the...

Bartok at the Crossroads: A Classical Sonatina from Five Rumanian Folk Dances

01 October 2003 natural tendency of lines to descend toward tonic. Yet in Eastern European folk music, the fourth occurs commonly. Elliott Antokoletz explains: The frequent melodic skips of a perfect fourth in the old Hungarian folk melodies were a significant source...