Download or read book The Music of Béla Bartók written by Paul Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sought to discover an unvarying precompositional system that accounted for individual musical events. Wilson's approach is different in that he develops a way to explore each work within the musical contexts that the work itself creates and sustains. Wilson begins by discussing a number of fundamental musical materials that Bartok employed throughout his oeuvre. Using these materials as foundations, he then describes a series of flexible, behaviorally defined harmonic.