The author was active as a conductor, music-teacher, editor, composer and musicologist. The ingenuity of his writings on musical theory derives from this versatility. Bárdos explains Bartók’s and Kodály’s stylistic components with regard to melody, tonality, harmony, polyphony and form. The reader is also introduced to a specific mode of melody formation so far unknown in the common knowledge about music, i. e. organics.
Franz Liszt’s Religious Vocal Compositions from the Holy Year 1879: The Composer’s Religious Intonation in the Light of the Aesthetics of the Romantic Fragment
Source(s) of analysis: Score Musical work: Cantantibus Organis (S.7), Gebet (S. 331), O Roma nobilis (S.54), Ossa Arida (S.56), Rosario (S.55), Sei still (S. 330), Via crucis (S.53) Year of creation: 1879 Composer's name: Franz Liszt Methods of analysis: Conventional / Traditional analysis, Rhetoric analysis, Style analysis
Target Group / Study LevelLevel of music analysis knowledge: Advanced, Intermediate
Study cycle: PhD and professional
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