GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Bartok as Proto-Bio-Artist

Bela Bartok as Proto-Bio Artist, (Iannis Zannos)

1.1 20th century composers: Dates

1.1.1 Bartok's Generation (1870-1900)

• 1.1.1.1 Arnold Schönberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951)
• 1.1.1.2 Bela Bartok 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945

Béla Viktor János Bartók (/ˈbeɪlə ˈbɑːrtɒk/; Hungarian: [ˈbɒrtoːk ˈbeːlɒ]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became known as ethnomusicology.

• 1.1.1.3 Igor Stravinsky (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971)
• 1.1.1.4 Olivier Messiaen (né le 10 décembre 1908 à Avignon (Vaucluse) et mort le 27 avril 1992)

1.1.2 Next Generation (influenced by Bartok)

Compatriots:

• 1.1.2.1 Györgi Ligeti (28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006)
• 1.1.2.2 Iannis Xenakis (29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001)

1.2 Fibonacci (Hemachandra) Numbers and the Golden Section

1.2.1 Historical precursors in India

• 1.2.1.1 Acharya *Pingala* (c. 3rd–2nd century BCE)
• 1.2.1.2 Virahanka (ca 6-8th century AD)
• 1.2.1.3 Hemachandra (1050)

1.2.2 Introduction to Europe: Leonardo Fibonacci (2003)

In: Liber Abaci, 1203 AD

1.3 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Béla Bartók / Vasily Petrenko / Oslo Philharmonic

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EsNGS9vYe8&ab_channel=OsloPhilharmonic

1.4 More details and Bela Bartok Music examples:

1.4.1 String Quartet Number 2

I. Moderato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhv6xgc4CAY&list=PLaK7FcaVcs_wzQoa9ybz7QCAPRcunZfPR&index=4&ab_channel=Tak%C3%A1csQuartet-Topic

II. Allegro molto capriccioso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEXhmqWvKgs&list=PLaK7FcaVcs_wzQoa9ybz7QCAPRcunZfPR&index=5&ab_channel=Tak%C3%A1csQuartet-Topic

III. Lento https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nEBIOk1kwg&list=PLaK7FcaVcs_wzQoa9ybz7QCAPRcunZfPR&index=6&ab_channel=Tak%C3%A1csQuartet-Topic

1.4.2 String Quartet No 4, played by Takacs Quartet (Composed 1928)

I. Allegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_hoMKGbalY&list=PLaK7FcaVcs_wzQoa9ybz7QCAPRcunZfPR&index=10&ab_channel=Tak%C3%A1csQuartet-Topic>

II. Prestissimo, con sordino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ga15wRGYGk&list=PLaK7FcaVcs_wzQoa9ybz7QCAPRcunZfPR&index=11&ab_channel=Tak%C3%A1csQuartet-Topic>

III. Non troppo lento https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP74FhypOB0&list=PLaK7FcaVcs_wzQoa9ybz7QCAPRcunZfPR&index=12&ab_channel=Tak%C3%A1csQuartet-Topic>

IV. Allegretto pizzicato https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InwUCs3htBg&list=PLaK7FcaVcs_wzQoa9ybz7QCAPRcunZfPR&index=13&ab_channel=Tak%C3%A1csQuartet-Topic>

V. Allegro molto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcJxDfrPDns&list=PLaK7FcaVcs_wzQoa9ybz7QCAPRcunZfPR&index=14&ab_channel=Tak%C3%A1csQuartet-Topic>

1.4.3 Music For Strings, Percussion and Celesta

• Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QElT9KD4uX8

• Performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Fritz Reiner

With score.

• Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Béla Bartók / Vasily

Petrenko / Oslo Philharmonic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EsNGS9vYe8&ab_channel=OsloPhilharmonic>

1.4.4 Piano Suite "Out of Doors", Movement 4, "The Night's Music"

Bela Bartok - Out of Doors, Sz. 81 (Seong-Jin Cho) (1926) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HePh-vTNK8o&t=409s>