The study of Bela Bartok's Four Dirges for piano (1909- 1910) is significant in that this period of 1908 to 1910 was particularly experimental and formative for Bartók, especially in tonal aspects of his compositional style. Furthermore, very little research and analysis has been done on these smaller works. This thesis contributes an analytical study of this early style and also shows its influence on larger mature works in subsequent years. A complete analysis on each dirge contains graphs of tonal structures and patterns constructed by Bartok within each composition. The concluding chapter summarizes overall characteristics of the dirges.

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Béla Bartók's Piano Sonata Sz.80 is known for its integration of modernist language with traditional elements. However, due to Bartók's radical style of writing, it remains challenging to precisely define the piece's motives, voice-leading, and structure, even though pianists who perform it may intuitively comprehend them. Therefore, this study aims to elucidate the Piano Sonata's motivic and tonal structure, genesis and development. First, this study demonstrates Bartók's use of linear motives and progressions to elucidate the Piano Sonata's large-scale structure and demonstrate its internal coherence. Second, by comparing the published score with the facsimile of the Budapest Manuscript, it is possible to shed light on the significance of the changes that Bartók made, facilitating a better understanding of his intentions. Lastly, this study suggests interpretive decisions based on the analysis and manuscripts, thus providing performers with a more thorough understanding of the piece.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T17:06:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Allan.pdf: 6015471 bytes, checksum: c9502b248f8def57196d096754d4ef5e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation is an analytical study of Béla Bartók s String Quartet nº 3, looking for axes of symmetry that works as pitch organizers. This research is bounded with the Eastern Europe s traditional music done by Bártok, an essential influence to the creation of the composer s musical language. So on, this work begins with a research about the motivations that led Bartók to the peasant music, focusing on the information given by him. This lead to the analysis of folk songs collected by Bartók and his contemporary researchers used as examples by him on his papers, resulting in the finding of tunes composed around an axis of symmetry. In equal measure, such symmetrical formations are found in pieces from others modern composers, mainly those who sought to oppose tonality on their works. It was used musical examples from Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Berg and Webern, together with others Bartók s works. Although the theory about inversional symmetry is not too recent, with origin on the second part of XX century, most of the analyses are created through methods created by the analyst himself. So, this work directs to a methodological option for the of analysis axes of symmetry, generated with the collecting of used elements from several authors. This work contributes too with the expansion of the axes of symmetry theory by bringing it to the structural level, so that the axes could be symmetrically related to each other. Several symmetrical axés were found on the analysis of Bartók s Third Quartet, a piece considered among his most abstracts works. On this context, the axes of symmetry provide a kind of synthesis of folk music and modern music, that can represent East and West on music / Esta dissertação contém um estudo analítico do Quarteto de Cordas nº 3 de Bela Bartók, a fim de encontrar eixos simétricos que atuam como organizadores das alturas. Tal busca está conectada com o estudo da música tradicional do Leste Europeu efetuado por Bartók, influência essencial para a formulação da linguagem musical do compositor. Para tanto, o trabalho é iniciado por uma pesquisa das motivações que conduziram Bartók à música dos camponeses, dando privilégio às informações dadas pelo próprio autor. Esta pesquisa conduziu à análise de canções coletadas por Bartók ou pesquisadores a ele contemporâneos presentes nos exemplos de canções folclóricas em seu legado escrito, resultando na descoberta de melodias compostas em torno de um eixo de simetria. Na mesma medida, tais organizações simétricas são igualmente encontradas em peças de compositores modernos, principalmente daqueles que procuravam distanciamento da tonalidade em suas obras. Para tanto, foram utilizados pequenos trechos de Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Berg e Webern, juntamente com excertos de outras obras de Bartók. Apesar de que a teoria a respeito da simetria inversional não seja muito recente, tendo sua origem na segunda metade do século XX, as análises partem de metodologias criadas pelo próprio analista. Assim, este trabalho apresenta uma opção metodológica para a busca de eixos simétricos, formada a partir do agrupamento de elementos utilizados anteriormente por diversos autores. Este trabalho contribui também com a expansão da teoria da simetria inversional para o nível estrutural, de forma com que os eixos também podem se relacionar simetricamente entre si. Diversos eixos simétricos foram encontrados durante a análise do Terceiro Quarteto de Bartók, uma obra considerada entre as mais abstratas do compositor. Neste contexto, os eixos simétricos se constituem como uma síntese da música folclórica com a música moderna, representações do Leste e Oeste na música