Details

Subject(s)

• Columbia University—Faculty [Browse]
• Music [Browse]
• Folk music—Romania [Browse]
• Folk music—Turkey [Browse]
• Folk music—Yugoslavia [Browse]
• Folk songs, Serbo-Croatian [Browse]
• Folk songs, Romanian [Browse]
• Folk songs, Turkish [Browse]
• Composers [Browse]

Related name

• Moore, Douglas, 1893-1969 [Browse]
• Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968 [Browse]
• Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Scores (documents for music) [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1940-1943

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

Restrictions note

• This collection is located on-site.
• This collection has no restrictions.

Biographical/​Historical note

Composer.

Summary note

• The collection consists of three manuscripts by Bela Bartok, 1940-1943. These manuscripts totalling approximately 2,170 pages are as follows: 1) Romanian Folk Music - Vol. 1 Instrumental Melodies, Vol. 2 Vocal Melodies, Vol. 3 Texts; 2) Turkish Folk Music; and 3) Serbo-Croatian Table of Materials. Also, a small group of letters by Bartók and other concerning his association with Columbia University.
• Rumanian Folk Music manuscripts consist of "Volume I, an essay on instrumental melodies, and Volume II, on vocal melodies, were completed in New York in 1942. The third volume, the complete poetic texts, was finished in March of 1945, also in that city, not quite six months prior to Bartok's death." Source: Suchoff, Benjamin. Bartók's Rumanian Folk Music Publication. Ethnomusicology , May, 1971, Vol. 15, No. 2 (May, 1971), pp. 220-230

Location of originals

Turkish Folk Music and Rumanian Folk Music are on: microfilm.

Action note

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 04/03/89.

Accumulation and frequency of use

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Rights and reproductions note

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Provenance

Gift of Béla Bartók, 1943. Transferred from Central Files, 1981.

Source acquisition

Source of acquisition--Bartók, Béla. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1940. Accession number--M43.

Cite as

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Béla Bartók manuscripts; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

OCLC

465279188

RCP

C - S

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