Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Tradition Rejected: Bartok's Polemics and the Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Musical Inheritance 2. Tradition Maintained: Nationalism, Verbunkos, Kossuth, and the Rhapsody, Op. 1 3. Tradition Transformed: "The Night's Music" and the Pastoral Roots of a Modern Style 4. Tradition Challenged: Confronting Stravinsky 5. Tradition Transcribed: The Rhapsody for Violin No. 1, the Politics of Folk-Music Research, and the Artifice of Authenticity 6. Tradition Restored: The Violin Concerto, Verbunkos, and Hungary on the Eve of World War II Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

David E. Schneider is Associate Professor and Chair of Music at Amherst College.