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The work is said by Kárpáti to have "technical bravura and at the same time...poetic versatility". In contrast, E.R., assumes that appreciation of the work suffers from its "lack of variety of mood" though "Bartók's genius consists in gifts of rhetoric so rich that he can spread this one mood, and
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Various Hungarian and Romanian dance melodies are incorporated into the work. The first movement begins with a lively violin pizzicato, after which the clarinet introduces the main theme, which is then varied. This theme is an example of the Hungarian
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are used. This structure may be extended through considering each third of the original triad as also being a possible third in a triad a half step in either direction. Thus C
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spread it interestingly, over a score or more of large-scale works". He argues that the "contrasts" in the piece are "of speed rather than of mood."
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Verbunkos was a stately and stylized Hungarian Recruiting Dance "measured in rhythm and rich in melodic embellishments characterized by the theme":
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dance melodies and has three movements with a combined duration of 17–20 minutes. Bartók wrote the work in response to a letter from
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of the first movement features, in relation to the root, A, the minor and major third and the perfect and diminished fifth:
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This movement has been described as volcanic rather than relaxing, despite its title, "relaxation" or "rest".
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for clarinet and the last one for violin. The piece features examples of alternate or dual-thirds (C and C
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Bónis, F. (1963). "Quotations in Bartók's Music. A Contribution to Bartók's Psychology of Composition".
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is revealed as both an alternative fifth of an A chord and the alternative third of a C chord by the
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E. R. (1943) ."Review: Contrasts, for Violin, Clarinet and Piano by Béla Bartók",
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Bradshaw, Susan (2001). "Piano music: recital repertoire and chamber music",
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Seiber considers it "a less weighty, less important work in Bartók's whole
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was composed by Béla Bartók (pictured) under commission from Benny Goodman
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in detail. Szigeti recalled that Bartók had told him that the start of
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is a major third in an A major triad and the minor third of a B
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had partial inspiration from the "Blues" second movement of
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Kárpáti, János (1981). "Alternative Structures in Bartók's
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at the third at the beginning of the development, bar 58:
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (21 March 2014).
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Between the six notes of both triads are seven thirds.
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Seiber, Mátyás (1949). "Béla Bartók's Chamber Music",
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János Kárpáti has discussed the structural aspects of
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Sz.
1938
composition
clarinet–violin–piano trio
Béla Bartók
Hungarian
Romanian
violinist
Joseph Szigeti
clarinetist
Benny Goodman
tempo
cadenza
Alternate or dual thirds in a triad depicted as a diamond
mixed thirds
bitonal
major
minor third
triad
Chain of alternate thirds
dance
music
verbunkos
scordatura
time signature
Maurice Ravel
motif
Alternative structures in the opening and concluding motif
canon

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