Bartókiana - Abstracts

26th Annual Semiotic Society of America Conference
University of Toronto – Victoria College
October 18 – 21, 2001

Approaches to Musical Semiotics

Chair: Robert Hatten

“An analysis of “Leggerezza” -  from  “Invisible Connections:”
the Harvard Lectures of Bartók (1943) and Calvino (1985)

Dr. Damjana Bratuž

Introduction

 (References:)

Blood and Belonging: Six Journeys. 1. 'Croatia and Serbia' by Michael Ignatieff (1993).

Serbo-Croatian Folk Songs, by Béla Bartók and Albert B. Lord (1951).

The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mpc/index.html).

Poetry as Performance, by Gregory Nagy (1996).

Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic, by John Miles Foley (1991).

Folklore et Transcendance dans l'Oeuvre Américaine de Béla Bartók (1940-1945), by Yves Lenoir (1986).

Six Memos for the Next Millennium, by Italo Calvino (1988)

Harvard Lectures [1943], by Béla Bartók, in B.B. Essays (B.Suchoff, ed. 1976)

1. Lightness (Leggerezza)

Next:
2. Quickness

3. Exactitude

4. Visibility

5. Multiplicity