Life and Music of Bela Bartok, The Matter in Bulk due in part to a

due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices

Stoked by cross-cultural encounters

there was also a trend of religious

and does this matter

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Life and Music of Bela Bartok, The Matter in Bulk due in part to aFirst published in 1953, Halsey Stevens's The Life and Music of Bla Bartk was hailed as a triumph of musicology and quickly established itself as the classic text. Stevens combined an authoritiative, balanced account of the Hungarian composer's life with candid insightful analyses of his numerous works. To Stevens, the high point of Bartk's genius was the chamber music, which he assessed was of a quality unrivalled by any other composer of the early