MUSICOLOGICAL PROGRAMME 2017
The Bartók World Competition & Festival is accompanied by a musicological programme related to the main subject of the 2017 competition, “Bartók and the Violin”.
14–15 September 2017
Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Bartók Hall of the Institute for Musicology
Session 1 (morning) Thursday, 14 September 2017
9.45–10.00 Opening addresses
10.00–11.15 Keynote speech
David Cooper (Leeds University): Bartók, Biography and the Violin
11.30–13.00 Paper session, chair: David Cooper
Virág Büky (Budapest Bartók Archives): The Appearance of the ‘Ideal’ and other Topoi in Bartók’s Two Violin-Piano Sonatas
Sylveline Bourion (Université de Montréal): Bartók on the Violin: Integration and Transformation of Romanian and Hungarian Folk Music in His Two Violin Rhapsodies
Zsombor Németh (Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest): Imre Waldbauer and Béla Bartók
Session 2 (afternoon) Thursday, 14 September 2017
14.00–15.15 Keynote speech
Elliott Antokoletz (University of Texas, Austin): Tonality or Atonality in Bartók’s Sonata No. 2? From Folk Modalities to a Twelve-Tone Language
15.30–17.00 Paper session, chair: Elliott Antokoletz
Sarah Lucas (University of Iowa): Performance and Reception of Bartók’s Violin Music during His First Concert Tour of the United States (1927–1928)
Viola Biró (Budapest Bartók Archives): Bartók’s Violin Players from Maramureş
Yusuke Nakahara (Budapest Bartók Archives): A Triumph of Musical Order? Multiple Sources of Inspiration in “Prelude and Canon,” Forty-Four Duos, No. 37
Session 3 (morning) Friday, 15 September 2017
10.00–11.15 Keynote speech
Peter Laki (Bard College): The Decade of the Violin Concerto: New Music and the Performer in the 1930s
11.30–13.00 Paper session, chair: Peter Laki
István G. Németh (Institute for Musicology, Budapest): The Influence of Bartók’s Verbunkos-Based Violin Parts on the Work of Adrian Pop
Mohammad Moussa Khalaf (Bar-Ilan University, Israel): Bartók’s Violin: An Arab Musician Looks at the Western World
Session 4 (afternoon) Friday, 15 September 2017
14.00–15.15 Keynote speech
László Somfai (Budapest Bartók Archives): Bartók’s Violin and Piano Sonatas Nos. 1–2: Compositional Process
15.30–17.00 Violin Workshop
Joseph Puglia (Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag): Workshop on Duos for Two Violins by Bartók and Berio