Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor / / Bela Bartok; ed. by Benjamin Suchoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Bartok, Bela,
• MitwirkendeR: Bartók, Béla,; Reinhard, Kurt,
• HerausgeberIn: Suchoff, Benjamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1853
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)

This book is a substantial and thorough musicological analysis of Turkish folk music. It reproduces in facsimile Bartók's autograph record of eighty seven vocal and instrumental peasant melodies of the Yürük Tribes, a nomadic people in southern Anatolia. Bartók's introduction includes his annotations of the melodies, texts, and translations and establishes a connection between Old Hungarian and Old Turkish folk music.Begun in 1936 and completed in 1943, the work was Bartók's last major essay. The editor, Dr. Benjamin Suchoff, has provided an historical introduction and a chronology of the various manuscript versions. An afterword by Kurt Reinhard describes recent research in Turkish ethnomusicology and gives a contemporary assessment of Bartók's field work in Turkey. Appendices prepared by the editor include an index of themes compiled by computer.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Part One -- Introduction to Part One -- Music Examples -- Notes to the Melodies -- Part Two -- Introduction to Part Two -- Texts and Translations -- Notes to the Texts -- Bibliography -- Afterword -- Appendix: Lexicographical Index of Turkish Vocal 271 Melodies -- Index of First Lines -- General Index