Music In Mind #58 - Reading Series: The String Quartets of Bartok by Milton Babbitt

Music In Mind #58 - Reading Series: The String Quartets of Bartok by Milton Babbitt

Author: Anthony Caulkins January 26, 2023 Duration: 39:54

This episode is the first in my new reading series. The article from this episode is "The String Quartets of Bartok" (1949), written by Milton Babbitt and taken from the book The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt

Recorded musical examples taken from the Takas Quartet recordings of the 6 Bartok string quartets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI-fZJC9BtM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJLb7-m-pAY&t=25s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2zPA4RuzaM&t=1s

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