MORE UNFINISHED BUSINESS
For serious students of Béla Bartók and his unfinished
Viola Concerto, there is always more to know. This collection of resources
provides a sampling of materials drawn upon for our article, and offers
fodder for further study. The list begins with a few helpful websites
that offer musicological and theoretical background material. Next
comes an alphabetical list of authors and experts who have written
about Bartók or his Viola Concerto. Web addresses and specific
titles or works are noted, where available. Several printed and recorded
editions of the concerto are referenced at the end of the list, including
the respective publishers’ and record companies’ contact information.
GENERAL
Interesting compendium of writings about Bartók
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~braddellr/articles/disso/index.htm
International Viola Society
http://www.viola.com/ivs/
Journal of the American Viola Society
http://www.americanviolasociety.org/javs.html
Primrose International Viola Archives (PIVA) at the Harold B. Lee
Library
http://byline-ng.lib.byu.edu/remote/wgbroker?01130902121278+%2Daccess+top%2Ebyuopac
The Viola Research Society
http://www.viola.com/
AUTHORS
Elliott Antokoletz
The music of Béla Bartók: a study of tonality
and progression in twentieth-century music. University of California
Press (Berkeley), 1984.
Peter Bartók
"Commentary on the Revision of Béla Bartók’s Viola
Concerto," Journal of the American Viola Society, 1996. www.americanviolasociety.org/javs.html
R. K. Call
"A Historical Analysis and Comparison of Several Sources for Béla
Bartók’s Viola Concerto," The Viola (yearbook of the
International Viola Society), 1991.
Ross Charnock
English translation of his article (originally in French) comparing
various editions of the viola concerto:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/amis.alto/Ross/newbartokA.htm.
Additional
print articles on the concerto:
In French: "Le nouveau Bartók est arrivé" 1996, in
the annual bulletin of Les Amis de l'Alto, pp. 14–21.
In German and English: "Bemerkungen über den ‘neuen’ Bartók"
("Remarks on the ‘new’ Bartók viola concerto"), Die Viola
II and III (bilingual publication of Deutsche Viola Gesellschaft,
the German Viola Society), 1998.
David Dalton
Genesis and synthesis of the Bartók viola concerto. D.M.A.
dissertation, Indiana University, 1970.
Malcolm Gillies
The Bartók Companion, Amadeus Press, 1994
Janos Kovacs
"Re-examining the Bartók/Serly Viola Concerto," Publishing
House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1981.
Donald Maurice
Viola Concerto—Béla Bartók (ISBN 0195156900)
This book is due out from Oxford University Press in the fall of 2004.
(800) 451-7556.
http://www.oup.com
Donald Maurice, et al
"Panel Discussion: The Bartók Viola Concerto," from the
1997 International Viola Congress in Austin, Texas, Journal of
the American Viola Society, 1997.
www.americanviolasociety.org/javs.html
Tibor Serly
Two short articles:
"Story of a Concerto—Bartók’s last work" New York Times,
December 11, 1949.
"A belated account of the reconstruction of a 20th century masterpiece,"
College Music Symposium 15, pp 7–15, 1975.
Halsey Stevens
The Life and Music of Béla Bartók. Oxford
University Press (New York), 1953. (Revised edition 1964).
Paul Wilson
The Music of Béla Bartók. Yale University
Press (New Haven), 1992.
PRINTED EDITIONS
Béla Bartók Viola Concerto, author’s autograph edition.
Bartók Records, PO Box 399, Homosassa, FL 34487. (352) 382-2015
Béla Bartók Viola Concerto, completed and orchestrated
by Tibor Serly in 1949.
Béla Bartók Viola Concerto, revised and edited by Peter
Bartók and Nelson Dellamaggiore in 1995.
Boosey & Hawkes. http://www.boosey.com
Béla Bartók Viola Concerto, Csaba Erdélyi restoration
and orchestration, 2001. Piano reduction available in May 2002. Orchestral
study score will be available before the end of 2002, possibly as
early as August. Promethean Editions. http://www.promethean-editions.co.nz/
Promethean Editions Ltd., PO Box 10 143, Wellington, New Zealand.
(64) 4 473 5033
http://www.promethean-editions.com
RECORDINGS
Béla Bartók Viola Concerto, Two Pictures. Hong-Mei
Xiao, viola; Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Janós Kovacs,
conductor. Naxos 8.554183
Two versions: One revised and edited by Peter Bartók and Paul
Neubauer (and Nelson Dellamaggiore) in 1995; the other completed and
orchestrated by Tibor Serly in 1949.
Naxos http://www.naxos.com/naxos/naxos.htm
Béla Bartók Viola Concerto, Csaba Erdélyi,
viola; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Marc Taddei, conductor. [Catalog
number pending; due for release in May 2002.]
Csaba Erdélyi restoration and orchestration, 2001.
Concordance Ltd. http://www.concorda.com/
